Portipher Surname
Approximately 474 people bear this surname
Portipher Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 471 | 1:36,346 | 5,352 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Portipher (1,021) may also be a first name.
Portipher Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Portipher Come From? nationality or country of origin
Portipher is found most in Malawi. It can also be found as:. For other possible spellings of Portipher click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Portipher? popularity and diffusion
The surname Portipher is the 641,055th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 15,374,569 people. The surname Portipher is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Portipher reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Portipher is also the 251,260th most widely held first name in the world, held by 1,021 people.
This last name is most frequent in Malawi, where it is borne by 471 people, or 1 in 36,346. Other than Malawi this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 0 percent are found and Nigeria, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Portipher
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