Lemsa Surname
Approximately 72 people bear this surname
Lemsa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 40 | 1:519,227 | 41,500 |
| Thailand | 25 | 1:2,825,534 | 284,782 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Lemša (1) are calculated separately.
Lemsa (122) may also be a first name.
Lemsa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemsa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lemsa occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Lemša. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemsa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,237,939th most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 101,215,916 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 57 percent of Lemsa are found; 56 percent are found in Central Africa and 56 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 844,248th most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 122 people.
This last name is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 519,227. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Littoral Region, where 93 percent live and South Region, where 3 percent live. Excluding Cameroon Lemsa is found in 7 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 35 percent live and Latvia, where 3 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 Lemsa
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