Lingamba Surname

1,070,546th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 232 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Lingamba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lingamba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia2141:74,0656,380
Tanzania171:3,114,21350,054
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543

Lingamba (40) may also be a first name.

Lingamba Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lingamba Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lingamba is found most frequently in Zambia. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Lingamba click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lingamba? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,070,546th most commonly used last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 31,411,836 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Lingamba live; 92 percent live in Southern Africa and 92 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Lingamba is also the 1,614,485th most commonly used first name on earth, held by 40 people.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is held by 214 people, or 1 in 74,065. In Zambia it is most prevalent in: Western Province, where 53 percent live, North-Western Province, where 35 percent live and Southern Province, where 8 percent live. Beside Zambia it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 7 percent live and The DR Congo, where 0 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
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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 Lingamba
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