Mapoya Surname
Approximately 100 people bear this surname
Mapoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Mapoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mapoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mapoya occurs more in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Mapoya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mapoya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mapoya is the 1,849,867th most common surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mapoya live; 82 percent live in Central Africa and 82 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is held by 82 people, or 1 in 900,970. Without taking into account The DR Congo this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 9 percent reside and Malawi, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Mapoya
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