Mapah Surname
Approximately 456 people bear this surname
Mapah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 371 | 1:55,981 | 7,232 |
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | 1:247,082 | 33,879 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Congo | 12 | 1:415,758 | 10,462 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Mapah (24) may also be a first name.
Mapah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mapah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mapah has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mapah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 659,458th most frequent surname globally, held by around 1 in 15,981,460 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 85 percent of Mapah live; 80 percent live in Central Africa and 73 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently occurring given name globally, held by 24 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 371 people, or 1 in 55,981. In Cameroon Mapah is most frequent in: West Region, where 33 percent live, Littoral Region, where 25 percent live and Centre Region, where 23 percent live. Not including Cameroon this last name exists in 14 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent live and Israel, 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 Mapah
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