Sapelo Surname
Approximately 340 people bear this surname
Sapelo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 277 | 1:195,587 | 21,102 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 1:8,816,613 | 340,855 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Sapelo (173) may also be a first name.
Sapelo Demographics
Average Sapelo Salary in
South Africa
R 127,440
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Sapelo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sapelo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sapelo is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Sapelo.
How Common Is The Last Name Sapelo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 818,364th most commonly occurring family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 21,433,959 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Sapelo live; 87 percent live in Southern Africa and 87 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 694,534th most prevalent first name globally, borne by 173 people.
It is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is borne by 277 people, or 1 in 195,587. In South Africa Sapelo is most frequent in: North West, where 86 percent reside, Gauteng, where 12 percent reside and Eastern Cape, where 1 percent reside. Barring South Africa this surname is found in 7 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent reside and Botswana, where 5 percent reside.
Sapelo Last Name Statistics demography
Sapelo earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 46.37% less than the national average, earning R 127,440 per year.
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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 Sapelo
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