Bwema Surname
Approximately 1,937 people bear this surname
Bwema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,799 | 1:41,067 | 5,041 |
| Zambia | 105 | 1:150,952 | 10,816 |
| Uganda | 11 | 1:3,549,025 | 89,142 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Tanzania | 6 | 1:8,823,602 | 72,091 |
| Rwanda | 4 | 1:2,841,244 | 3,611 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Bwema (389) may also be a first name.
Bwema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bwema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bwema occurs most in The DR Congo. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bwema? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 212,611th most frequent surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,762,285 people. The last name Bwema occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bwema live; 93 percent live in Central Africa and 93 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Bwema is also the 439,102nd most frequently held forename on earth It is held by 389 people.
The last name Bwema is most frequently occurring in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 1,799 people, or 1 in 41,067. Not including The DR Congo it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 5 percent live and Uganda, where 1 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
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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 Bwema
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