Phosisi Surname

937,786th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 280 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Lesotho

Phosisi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phosisi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa1411:384,23934,295
Lesotho1301:15,6353,398
England81:6,964,757184,742
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

Phosisi (13) may also be a first name.

Phosisi Last Name Facts

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

The surname Phosisi is most common in South Africa. It may appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Phosisi click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Phosisi? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 937,786th most frequently used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 26,026,950 people. The surname Phosisi occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Phosisi live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Phosisi is also the 3,159,357th most widely held first name internationally It is held by 13 people.

Phosisi is most numerous in South Africa, where it is held by 141 people, or 1 in 384,239. In South Africa it is mostly found in: Gauteng, where 74 percent live, North West, where 13 percent live and Free State, where 9 percent live. Beside South Africa this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Lesotho, where 46 percent live and England, where 3 percent live.

Phosisi Last Name Statistics demography

Phosisi earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 63.32% less than the national average, earning R 87,156 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 Phosisi
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