Papiyana Surname

385,006th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 923 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Papiyana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Papiyana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa9091:59,6017,526
Indonesia71:18,892,742520,071
India61:127,844,230863,365
England11:55,718,059489,080

Papiyana Last Name Facts

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

Papiyana is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Papiyana? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 385,006th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 7,895,499 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Papiyana live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is borne by 909 people, or 1 in 59,601. In South Africa Papiyana is most frequent in: Eastern Cape, where 51 percent live, KwaZulu-Natal, where 23 percent live and Gauteng, where 12 percent live. Apart from South Africa Papiyana occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 1 percent live and India, where 1 percent live.

Papiyana Last Name Statistics demography

Papiyana earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 52.38% less than the national average, earning R 113,172 per year.

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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 Papiyana
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