Dekwende Surname
Approximately 61 people bear this surname
Dekwende Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 58 | 1:266,177 | 28,032 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Dekwende Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dekwende Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dekwende occurs more in Zimbabwe more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Dekwende? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,460,878th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 119,467,966 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Dekwende live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 58 people, or 1 in 266,177. In Zimbabwe it is most common in: Mashonaland West Province, where 67 percent reside, Midlands Province, where 16 percent reside and Harare Province, where 14 percent reside. Not including Zimbabwe this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent reside and Mozambique, 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
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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
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