Simoa Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Simoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Cambodia | 11 | 1:1,407,922 | 6,192 |
| Brazil | 9 | 1:23,786,037 | 375,389 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Cape Verde | 4 | 1:132,410 | 4,291 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
The alternate forms: Simôa (157) are calculated separately.
Simoa (1,021) may also be a first name.
Simoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Simoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Simoa is more frequently found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Simôa. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Simoa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,530,696th most widely held family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. The surname Simoa occurs mostly in The Americas, where 28 percent of Simoa live; 26 percent live in Oceania Islands and 26 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 251,260th most frequently used first name at a global level, held by 1,021 people.
The surname is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 15 people, or 1 in 543,581. In Papua New Guinea Simoa is mostly found in: Western, where 87 percent reside, East New Britain, where 7 percent reside and Milne Bay, where 7 percent reside. Other than Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Cambodia, where 19 percent reside and Brazil, where 16 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 Simoa
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