Kemeya Surname
Approximately 606 people bear this surname
Kemeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 553 | 1:41,720 | 2,686 |
| Ethiopia | 25 | 1:3,901,850 | 10,182 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Kemeya (67) may also be a first name.
Kemeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kemeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kemeya is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kemeya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 532,873rd most commonly occurring last name on earth, held by around 1 in 12,025,653 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kemeya reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Mande Africa. Kemeya is also the 1,191,548th most commonly used forename throughout the world, held by 67 people.
The last name is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 553 people, or 1 in 41,720. In The Ivory Coast Kemeya is primarily found in: Woroba District, where 88 percent reside, Montagnes District, where 6 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 3 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Ethiopia, where 4 percent reside and Nigeria, where 3 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kemeya
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