Petemoya Surname
Approximately 150 people bear this surname
Petemoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 144 | 1:513,053 | 40,658 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Petemoya (22) may also be a first name.
Petemoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petemoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Petemoya is carried by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Petemoya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Petemoya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,434,893rd most widely held surname globally, held by around 1 in 48,583,639 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Petemoya live; 96 percent live in Central Africa and 96 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Petemoya is also the 2,301,746th most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 22 people.
The surname Petemoya is most widespread in The DR Congo, where it is held by 144 people, or 1 in 513,053. Besides The DR Congo Petemoya occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 3 percent reside and France, 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
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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 Petemoya
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