Sembela Surname
Approximately 429 people bear this surname
Sembela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 212 | 1:348,489 | 30,654 |
| Zambia | 156 | 1:101,602 | 8,098 |
| Uganda | 38 | 1:1,027,349 | 44,109 |
| Tanzania | 15 | 1:3,529,441 | 50,903 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
Sembela (12) may also be a first name.
Sembela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sembela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sembela is most common in The DR Congo. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Sembela.
How Common Is The Last Name Sembela? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 689,921st most commonly held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 16,987,287 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Sembela live; 49 percent live in Central Africa and 49 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Sembela is also the 3,306,491st most widely held given name world-wide, borne by 12 people.
Sembela is most widespread in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 212 people, or 1 in 348,489. Barring The DR Congo Sembela is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Zambia, where 36 percent live and Uganda, where 9 percent live.
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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 Sembela
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