Sempele Surname

645,988th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 469 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Sempele Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sempele Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya4541:101,7188,885
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
South Africa41:13,544,426222,367
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989

Sempele (36) may also be a first name.

Sempele Last Name Facts

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

Sempele is more commonly found in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sempele? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 645,988th most frequent family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 15,538,477 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sempele are found; 97 percent are found in East Africa and 94 percent are found in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Sempele is also the 1,717,090th most frequently occurring given name on earth. It is borne by 36 people.

It is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is held by 454 people, or 1 in 101,718. In Kenya Sempele is primarily found in: Narok County, where 70 percent reside, Kajiado County, where 27 percent reside and Nairobi County, where 2 percent reside. Beside Kenya this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 percent reside.

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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 Sempele
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