Buwende Surname
Approximately 86 people bear this surname
Buwende Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 84 | 1:464,753 | 27,435 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
Buwende Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buwende Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Buwende has its highest incidence in Uganda. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Buwende click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Buwende? popularity and diffusion
The last name Buwende is the 2,020,555th most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 84,738,906 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Buwende live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 81 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
It is most frequently held in Uganda, where it is borne by 84 people, or 1 in 464,753. In Uganda it is primarily found in: Bududa District, where 76 percent reside, Mbale District, where 15 percent reside and Buikwe District, where 7 percent reside. Outside of Uganda it exists in one country. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 2 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 Buwende
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