Leipa Surname
Approximately 212 people bear this surname
Leipa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 171 | 1:11,886 | 2,657 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Leipä (6) are calculated separately.
Leipa (178) may also be a first name.
Leipa Demographics
Leipa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Leipa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Leipa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Leipa is found most in Lesotho. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Leipä. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Leipa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Leipa is the 1,136,896th most frequently occurring surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 34,375,217 people. The last name Leipa occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Leipa live; 84 percent live in Southern Africa and 83 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 683,417th most widespread first name internationally It is held by 178 people.
This last name is most widely held in Lesotho, where it is held by 171 people, or 1 in 11,886. In Lesotho it is most numerous in: Butha-Buthe District, where 74 percent live, Mokhotlong District, where 22 percent live and Maseru District, where 4 percent live. Aside from Lesotho this surname is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent live and Tanzania, where 4 percent live.
Leipa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Leipa earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 42.65% less than the national average, earning R 136,284 per year.
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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 Leipa
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