Kisiya Surname
Approximately 523 people bear this surname
Kisiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 456 | 1:116,100 | 11,115 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kisiya (190) may also be a first name.
Kisiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kisiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kisiya (Hindi: किसिया, Oriya: କିଶିଆ) is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kisiya? popularity and diffusion
Kisiya is the 595,654th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 13,934,122 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kisiya are found; 87 percent are found in East Africa and 87 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 659,352nd most frequent first name at a global level. It is borne by 190 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Tanzania, where it is borne by 456 people, or 1 in 116,100. In Tanzania Kisiya is most prevalent in: Iringa Region, where 57 percent are found, Morogoro Region, where 25 percent are found and Mbeya Region, where 14 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 12 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kisiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kisiya in the Oriya language | ||
| କିଶିଆ | kisi'a | - |
| Kisiya in the Hindi language | ||
| किसिया | kisiya | 91.18 |
| किसीया | kisiya | 5.88 |
| केसीया | kesiya | 2.94 |
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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 Kisiya
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