Tamatea Surname
Approximately 224 people bear this surname
Tamatea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 181 | 1:25,018 | 4,374 |
| Australia | 40 | 1:674,893 | 46,030 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Tamatea (167) may also be a first name.
Tamatea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tamatea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tamatea is found most frequently in New Zealand. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tamatea? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,095,216th most prevalent family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 32,533,687 people. This last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 99 percent of Tamatea reside; 99 percent reside in Australasia and 99 percent reside in Australia and New Zealand. Tamatea is also the 708,111th most prevalent first name internationally, held by 167 people.
This last name is most commonly held in New Zealand, where it is carried by 181 people, or 1 in 25,018. In New Zealand it is primarily concentrated in: Auckland Region, where 25 percent reside, Gisborne Region, where 22 percent reside and Taranaki Region, where 11 percent reside. Apart from New Zealand this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 18 percent reside and Indonesia, where 1 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 Tamatea
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