Bakwe Surname
Approximately 346 people bear this surname
Bakwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 233 | 1:317,080 | 28,591 |
| Cameroon | 46 | 1:451,501 | 37,608 |
| Uganda | 25 | 1:1,561,571 | 56,175 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Bakwe (94) may also be a first name.
Bakwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bakwe is more commonly found in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakwe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bakwe is the 807,857th most frequently used last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 21,062,271 people. The surname Bakwe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Bakwe live; 80 percent live in Central Africa and 80 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 980,251st most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 94 people.
The last name is most common in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 233 people, or 1 in 317,080. Barring The DR Congo this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 13 percent live and Uganda, where 7 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 Bakwe
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