Sitemba Surname
Approximately 568 people bear this surname
Sitemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 324 | 1:48,920 | 4,638 |
| Namibia | 172 | 1:14,008 | 2,588 |
| Kenya | 52 | 1:888,075 | 32,885 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sitemba (10) may also be a first name.
Sitemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sitemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sitemba occurs more in Zambia more than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sitemba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sitemba is the 559,180th most widely held last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 12,830,186 people. The last name Sitemba occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sitemba reside; 88 percent reside in Southern Africa and 88 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Sitemba is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently occurring forename world-wide. It is borne by 10 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is held by 324 people, or 1 in 48,920. In Zambia Sitemba is mostly concentrated in: Southern Province, where 90 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 6 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 2 percent live. Apart from Zambia this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Namibia, where 30 percent live and Kenya, where 9 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 Sitemba
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