Cwilashe Surname

3,730,171st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 28 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Cwilashe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cwilashe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa281:1,934,91888,980

Cwilashe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cwilashe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cwilashe is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Cwilashe? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,730,171st most commonly used family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Cwilashe live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

Cwilashe is most frequent in South Africa, where it is held by 28 people, or 1 in 1,934,918. In South Africa it is mostly concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 75 percent live, Western Cape, where 18 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 4 percent live.

Cwilashe Last Name Statistics demography

Cwilashe earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 79.19% less than the national average, earning R 49,464 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kwilashe881/
Cwilishe881/
Kwilasha75131/
Kwilas71106/
Cuilas711/
Kwilasa676,203/
Kwilasi67261/
Kwilasz6727/
Kwilose6719/
Gwilasa675/
Guilase672/
Gwilasi671/
Gwelase671/

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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 Cwilashe
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