Gwanda Surname
Approximately 2,279 people bear this surname
Gwanda Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 756 | 1:234,316 | 13,659 |
| Malawi | 575 | 1:29,772 | 4,476 |
| Tanzania | 362 | 1:146,248 | 13,342 |
| Zimbabwe | 330 | 1:46,783 | 7,181 |
| Niger | 114 | 1:168,351 | 6,055 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| South Africa | 59 | 1:918,266 | 58,838 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gwanda (434) may also be a first name.
Gwanda Demographics
Average Gwanda Salary in
South Africa
R 76,848
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Gwanda Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gwanda Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gwanda is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gwanda? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gwanda is the 185,898th most common surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 3,197,695 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gwanda reside; 42 percent reside in Southern Africa and 42 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 411,730th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 434 people.
The last name Gwanda is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 756 people, or 1 in 234,316. In Nigeria Gwanda is most frequent in: Katsina, where 40 percent live, Sokoto, where 17 percent live and Plateau, where 11 percent live. Apart from Nigeria Gwanda is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 25 percent live and Tanzania, where 16 percent live.
Gwanda Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is predominantly Muslim (88%) in Nigeria.
Gwanda earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 67.66% less than the national average, earning R 76,848 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Gwanda
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis