Gatawa Surname

210,563rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,960 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Gatawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gatawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe8741:17,6642,588
Tanzania5101:103,80710,138
Philippines1711:592,03664,746
Malawi1311:130,68014,293
Zambia1291:122,8689,314
Nigeria621:2,857,14190,271
South Africa281:1,934,91888,980
England141:3,979,861125,553
Cameroon121:1,730,75692,157
Kenya121:3,848,32540,366
Papua New Guinea51:1,630,743129,019
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Ethiopia11:97,546,26229,669
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250

Gatawa (166) may also be a first name.

Gatawa Last Name Facts

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

Gatawa is found in Zimbabwe more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Gatawa? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 210,563rd most frequent family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 3,718,136 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Gatawa live; 59 percent live in Southern Africa and 59 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 710,504th most commonly used first name throughout the world It is held by 166 people.

This surname is most prevalent in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 874 people, or 1 in 17,664. In Zimbabwe Gatawa is most prevalent in: Masvingo Province, where 30 percent are found, Midlands Province, where 20 percent are found and Harare Province, where 19 percent are found. Beside Zimbabwe this last name exists in 18 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 26 percent are found and The Philippines, where 9 percent are found.

Gatawa Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Gatawa earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 195.37% more than the national average, earning R 701,916 per year and in United States they earn 48.71% more than the national average, earning $64,167 USD 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
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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 Gatawa
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