Siaya Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Siaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Siaya (235) may also be a first name.
Siaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Siaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Siaya (Hindi: सिाया) is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Siaya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,798,600th most frequent family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 63 percent of Siaya live; 59 percent live in East Africa and 41 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Siaya is also the 584,346th most widely held first name in the world, held by 235 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 5,882,401. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Arusha Region, where 100 percent live. Other than Tanzania this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 26 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Siaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Siaya in the Hindi language | ||
| सिाया | siaya | 91.67 |
| सिया | siya | 8.33 |
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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 Siaya
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