Potipa Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Potipa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Potipa (25) may also be a first name.
Potipa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potipa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Potipa (Russian: Потипа) is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Potipa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,532,898th most frequently used family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 383,555,048 people. Potipa occurs mostly in Oceania, where 63 percent of Potipa live; 63 percent live in Oceania Islands and 63 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,136,160th most commonly held first name world-wide, borne by 25 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 12 people, or 1 in 679,476. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: Morobe, where 92 percent reside and Southern Highlands, where 8 percent reside. Barring Papua New Guinea this surname is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 32 percent reside and Kenya, where 5 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Potipa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Potipa in the Russian language | ||
| Потипа | potipa | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Potipa
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