Popola Surname
Approximately 1,276 people bear this surname
Popola Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 948 | 1:186,859 | 11,345 |
| United States | 139 | 1:2,607,618 | 157,688 |
| Indonesia | 94 | 1:1,406,906 | 96,143 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Uganda | 16 | 1:2,439,955 | 72,451 |
| France | 12 | 1:5,535,227 | 269,324 |
| Guatemala | 11 | 1:1,462,061 | 5,661 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Popola (139) may also be a first name.
Popola Demographics
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Popola Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Popola Come From? nationality or country of origin
Popola (Georgian: ფოფოლა, Russian: Попола) occurs most in Nigeria. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Popola? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 298,377th most frequent family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,711,243 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Popola live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Popola is also the 784,558th most widely held first name at a global level, held by 139 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 948 people, or 1 in 186,859. In Nigeria Popola is primarily concentrated in: Oyo, where 20 percent are found, Lagos, where 16 percent are found and Ekiti, where 14 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 20 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 11 percent are found and Indonesia, where 7 percent are found.
Popola Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Popola has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Popola surname increased 2,317 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Popola Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Popola last name are 3.02% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 56.25% being registered to vote for the political party.
Popola earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 16.31% more than the national average, earning $50,188 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Popola Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Popola in the Georgian language | ||
| ფოფოლა | popola | 96 |
| პოპოლა | popola | 4 |
| Popola in the Russian language | ||
| Попола | popola | - |
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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 Popola
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