Namataa Surname
Approximately 993 people bear this surname
Namataa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 973 | 1:16,290 | 1,829 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Namataa (1,858) may also be a first name.
Namataa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namataa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Namataa is held by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Namataa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 363,673rd most widespread family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 7,338,918 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Namataa are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Namataa is also the 176,700th most commonly used first name in the world. It is borne by 1,858 people.
The surname Namataa is most widely held in Zambia, where it is carried by 973 people, or 1 in 16,290. In Zambia Namataa is primarily found in: Western Province, where 78 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 11 percent live and Southern Province, where 4 percent live. Not including Zambia Namataa occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 1 percent live and Uganda, 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
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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 Namataa
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