Shemkai Surname
Approximately 378 people bear this surname
Shemkai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 377 | 1:140,429 | 12,917 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Shemkai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shemkai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Shemkai is found in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shemkai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 757,040th most commonly used family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 19,279,222 people. The surname Shemkai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Shemkai live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Shemkai is most commonly used in Tanzania, where it is borne by 377 people, or 1 in 140,429. In Tanzania Shemkai is most common in: Tanga Region, where 75 percent live, Arusha Region, where 17 percent live and Geita Region, where 2 percent live. Excluding Tanzania this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 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
- 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 Shemkai
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