Pakapu Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Pakapu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 126 | 1:64,712 | 8,434 |
| India | 27 | 1:28,409,829 | 361,298 |
Pakapu (147) may also be a first name.
Pakapu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pakapu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pakapu occurs in Papua New Guinea more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pakapu? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,415,499th most frequently used family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 47,631,019 people. This last name is primarily found in Oceania, where 82 percent of Pakapu are found; 82 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 82 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 760,591st most frequently occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 147 people.
The surname Pakapu is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 126 people, or 1 in 64,712. In Papua New Guinea Pakapu is most common in: Enga, where 90 percent live, East Sepik, where 7 percent live and National Capital District, where 2 percent live. Other than Papua New Guinea this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in India, where 18 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 Pakapu
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