Musoya Surname
Approximately 2,387 people bear this surname
Musoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 2,278 | 1:32,432 | 4,032 |
| Zimbabwe | 55 | 1:280,695 | 28,958 |
| Zambia | 36 | 1:440,276 | 20,880 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Musoya (1,324) may also be a first name.
Musoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Musoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Musoya is more frequently found in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Musoya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 178,851st most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 3,053,015 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Musoya reside; 95 percent reside in Central Africa and 95 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 215,937th most frequently used forename in the world. It is borne by 1,324 people.
It is most frequently held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 2,278 people, or 1 in 32,432. Excluding The DR Congo this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 2 percent reside and Zambia, where 2 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 Musoya
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