Tambeya Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Tambeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 16 | 1:964,890 | 61,721 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Tambeya (26) may also be a first name.
Tambeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tambeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tambeya is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tambeya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tambeya is the 3,141,416th most frequent surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 79 percent of Tambeya live; 41 percent live in Southern Africa and 41 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Tambeya is also the 2,084,397th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 26 people.
This surname is most numerous in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 964,890. In Zimbabwe it is most frequent in: Midlands Province, where 94 percent live and Masvingo Province, where 6 percent live. Outside of Zimbabwe it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 36 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 21 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 Tambeya
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