Kosiah Surname
Approximately 818 people bear this surname
Kosiah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 510 | 1:259,312 | 23,526 |
| Liberia | 291 | 1:15,150 | 1,579 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kosiah (1,661) may also be a first name.
Kosiah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kosiah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kosiah is more frequently found in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Kosiah.
How Common Is The Last Name Kosiah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 423,328th most commonly held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 8,908,980 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 62 percent of Kosiah live; 62 percent live in Southeast Asia and 62 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Kosiah is also the 188,949th most frequently occurring forename internationally It is held by 1,661 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Indonesia, where it is held by 510 people, or 1 in 259,312. In Indonesia Kosiah is most frequent in: West Java, where 39 percent live, Central Java, where 23 percent live and East Java, where 21 percent live. Aside from Indonesia this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 36 percent live and The Netherlands, where 1 percent live.
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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 Kosiah
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