Shipembe Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Shipembe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 15 | 1:160,627 | 9,571 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Shipembe (14) may also be a first name.
Shipembe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shipembe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shipembe is more commonly found in Namibia than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Shipembe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shipembe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Shipembe is the 4,427,875th most commonly used family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Shipembe live; 75 percent live in Southern Africa and 75 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Shipembe is also the 3,024,661st most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 14 people.
The surname Shipembe is most commonly occurring in Namibia, where it is borne by 15 people, or 1 in 160,627. In Namibia it is most numerous in: Oshana Region, where 87 percent reside, Erongo Region, where 7 percent reside and Khomas Region, where 7 percent reside. Apart from Namibia this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 20 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 5 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
- 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 Shipembe
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