Yosiya Surname
Approximately 249 people bear this surname
Yosiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Uganda | 25 | 1:1,561,571 | 56,175 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yosiya (2,075) may also be a first name.
Yosiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yosiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yosiya is found most frequently in Malawi. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yosiya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yosiya is the 1,017,412th most commonly used surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 29,267,253 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yosiya are found; 53 percent are found in Southern Africa and 53 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Yosiya is also the 165,460th most frequent first name internationally, borne by 2,075 people.
The last name Yosiya is most common in Malawi, where it is carried by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Outside of Malawi Yosiya is found in 6 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 33 percent reside and Uganda, where 10 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
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- 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 Yosiya
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