Silaa Surname
Approximately 2,585 people bear this surname
Silaa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 2,096 | 1:25,258 | 3,101 |
| Algeria | 211 | 1:183,088 | 22,600 |
| Indonesia | 197 | 1:671,316 | 52,436 |
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
Silaa (133) may also be a first name.
Silaa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Silaa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Silaa is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Silaa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Silaa is the 167,319th most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 2,819,167 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Silaa live; 81 percent live in East Africa and 81 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 804,402nd most frequently held first name in the world It is held by 133 people.
The last name Silaa is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 2,096 people, or 1 in 25,258. In Tanzania Silaa is most common in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 58 percent are found, Arusha Region, where 16 percent are found and Dar es Salaam Region, where 14 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania it occurs in 16 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 8 percent are found and Indonesia, where 8 percent are found.
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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 Silaa
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