Bongwa Surname
Approximately 941 people bear this surname
Bongwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 684 | 1:108,011 | 11,961 |
| South Africa | 135 | 1:401,316 | 35,360 |
| Cameroon | 95 | 1:218,622 | 22,080 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Bongwa (283) may also be a first name.
Bongwa Demographics
Average Bongwa Salary in
South Africa
R 455,544
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Bongwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bongwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bongwa is most common in The DR Congo. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bongwa? popularity and diffusion
Bongwa is the 379,286th most commonly used surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 7,744,470 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bongwa live; 83 percent live in Central Africa and 83 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 526,385th most frequently occurring given name world-wide. It is borne by 283 people.
The surname is most frequently used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 684 people, or 1 in 108,011. Apart from The DR Congo it is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 14 percent live and Cameroon, where 10 percent live.
Bongwa Last Name Statistics demography
Bongwa earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 91.7% more than the national average, earning R 455,544 per year.
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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 Bongwa
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