Pondera Surname

2,909,720th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 45 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Bermuda

Pondera Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pondera Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe341:454,06638,992
DR Congo41:18,469,892182,906
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Pondera (11) may also be a first name.

Pondera Last Name Facts

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

Pondera is found most frequently in Zimbabwe. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pondera? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 2,909,720th most commonly occurring surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 87 percent of Pondera reside; 76 percent reside in Southern Africa and 76 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most widespread first name at a global level, borne by 11 people.

The last name Pondera is most widely held in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 34 people, or 1 in 454,066. In Zimbabwe it is most frequent in: Harare Province, where 38 percent live, Mashonaland West Province, where 38 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 21 percent live. Apart from Zimbabwe this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 9 percent live and Bermuda, where 2 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 Pondera
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