Pekaya Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Pekaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
Pekaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pekaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pekaya is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,057,639th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 485,836,394 people. The surname Pekaya is predominantly found in Oceania, where 80 percent of Pekaya reside; 80 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 80 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 679,476. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily found in: Hela, where 75 percent live and National Capital District, where 25 percent live. Not including Papua New Guinea Pekaya exists in one country. It also occurs in India, where 20 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 Pekaya
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