Kipeya Surname
Approximately 189 people bear this surname
Kipeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Uganda | 25 | 1:1,561,571 | 56,175 |
| Tanzania | 12 | 1:4,411,801 | 54,433 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Kipeya (66) may also be a first name.
Kipeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kipeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kipeya occurs more in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kipeya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kipeya is the 1,231,034th most frequently held family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 38,558,444 people. The surname Kipeya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kipeya reside; 79 percent reside in Central Africa and 79 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,201,840th most commonly held first name world-wide, held by 66 people.
The last name Kipeya is most common in The DR Congo, where it is held by 150 people, or 1 in 492,530. Aside from The DR Congo it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 13 percent reside and Tanzania, where 6 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
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- 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 Kipeya
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