Namele Surname
Approximately 347 people bear this surname
Namele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 220 | 1:240,644 | 19,599 |
| Papua New Guinea | 49 | 1:166,402 | 23,077 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Uganda | 26 | 1:1,501,511 | 54,973 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Namele (33) may also be a first name.
Namele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Namele is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Namele? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 806,178th most commonly used surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 21,001,573 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 82 percent of Namele reside; 71 percent reside in East Africa and 65 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,807,719th most commonly held first name in the world. It is borne by 33 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is borne by 220 people, or 1 in 240,644. In Tanzania Namele is mostly concentrated in: Lindi Region, where 53 percent live, Mtwara Region, where 43 percent live and Morogoro Region, where 4 percent live. Barring Tanzania this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent live and The DR Congo, where 8 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 Namele
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