Shantaba Surname

1,398,030th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 156 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Shantaba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Shantaba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia1551:102,2588,141
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543

Shantaba (58) may also be a first name.

Shantaba Last Name Facts

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

Shantaba is held by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Shantaba? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,398,030th most widely held last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. The surname Shantaba is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Shantaba live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,295,729th most frequently held first name throughout the world, borne by 58 people.

The last name is most commonly used in Zambia, where it is held by 155 people, or 1 in 102,258. In Zambia Shantaba is mostly concentrated in: North-Western Province, where 84 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 16 percent live. Other than Zambia it occurs in one country. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 1 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 Shantaba
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