Namailinga Surname

2,689,253rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 52 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Namailinga Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Namailinga Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia421:377,37919,273
Zimbabwe101:1,543,82478,460

Namailinga Last Name Facts

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

Namailinga is carried by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Namailinga? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,689,253rd most prevalent surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 140,145,114 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Namailinga live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname Namailinga is most commonly held in Zambia, where it is carried by 42 people, or 1 in 377,379. In Zambia Namailinga is most numerous in: Southern Province, where 95 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 5 percent are found. Outside of Zambia this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 19 percent are found.

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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 Namailinga
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