Guveya Surname
Approximately 2,056 people bear this surname
Guveya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 1,741 | 1:8,867 | 1,074 |
| Malawi | 288 | 1:59,441 | 8,056 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Guveya (69) may also be a first name.
Guveya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guveya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Guveya has its highest incidence in Zimbabwe. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Guveya.
How Common Is The Last Name Guveya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 202,554th most frequently occurring last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 3,544,526 people. The surname Guveya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Guveya live; 99 percent live in Southern Africa and 99 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Guveya is also the 1,171,416th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 69 people.
The last name Guveya is most commonly occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 1,741 people, or 1 in 8,867. In Zimbabwe Guveya is most numerous in: Mashonaland East Province, where 26 percent are found, Harare Province, where 23 percent are found and Mashonaland West Province, where 17 percent are found. Aside from Zimbabwe this surname is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 14 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Guveya
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