Lesira Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Lesira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Lesira (135) may also be a first name.
Lesira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lesira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lesira is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lesira? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lesira is the 4,532,898th most widely held family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 383,555,048 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 84 percent of Lesira live; 37 percent live in Southern Africa and 37 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 797,647th most frequently used first name on earth, held by 135 people.
Lesira is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 7,739,672. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Gauteng, where 100 percent live. Other than South Africa this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 26 percent live and Nigeria, where 16 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 Lesira
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