Nhayo Surname
Approximately 138 people bear this surname
Nhayo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 137 | 1:386,435 | 27,768 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nhayo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nhayo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nhayo is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Nhayo click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nhayo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,511,557th most frequently occurring last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 52,808,304 people. The last name Nhayo occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nhayo reside; 99 percent reside in East Africa and 99 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Nhayo is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 137 people, or 1 in 386,435. In Tanzania Nhayo is most common in: Dodoma Region, where 93 percent reside, Iringa Region, where 3 percent reside and Kilimanjaro Region, where 1 percent reside. Not including Tanzania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in South Africa, where 1 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
- 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 Nhayo
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