Salania Surname

2,136,387th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 78 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Salania Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Salania Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya571:810,17431,920
Papua New Guinea81:1,019,215101,897
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Uganda31:13,013,093160,157
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

Salania (99) may also be a first name.

Salania Last Name Facts

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

The last name Salania is found most in Kenya. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Salania? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,136,387th most numerous last name globally, held by around 1 in 93,430,076 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 77 percent of Salania are found; 77 percent are found in East Africa and 76 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 951,070th most prevalent first name world-wide It is held by 99 people.

This last name is most numerous in Kenya, where it is carried by 57 people, or 1 in 810,174. In Kenya it is most numerous in: Bungoma County, where 89 percent are found, Trans Nzoia County, where 7 percent are found and Busia County, where 2 percent are found. Beside Kenya this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent are found and India, where 4 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 Salania
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