Shapung Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Shapung Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 43 | 1:47,269 | 7,569 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Shapung Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shapung Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shapung occurs in Lesotho more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Shapung.
How Common Is The Last Name Shapung? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,776,799th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Shapung live; 90 percent live in Southern Africa and 90 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Shapung is most frequent in Lesotho, where it is carried by 43 people, or 1 in 47,269. In Lesotho it is primarily found in: Butha-Buthe District, where 84 percent live, Leribe District, where 7 percent live and Maseru District, where 7 percent live. Other than Lesotho Shapung is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 10 percent live and South Africa, where 2 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
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