Namaponya Surname

1,385,851st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 158 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Namaponya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Namaponya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi1571:109,03912,664
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260

Namaponya Last Name Facts

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

Namaponya is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Namaponya? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,385,851st most widely held surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 46,123,708 people. The last name Namaponya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Namaponya live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is carried by 157 people, or 1 in 109,039. Excluding Malawi this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 1 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 Namaponya
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