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
Gwanda is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gwanda? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 185,898th most frequent last name world-wide It is held by around 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. Gwanda is also the 411,730th most commonly held first name globally, borne by 434 people.
This surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 756 people, or 1 in 234,316. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Katsina, where 40 percent reside, Sokoto, where 17 percent reside and Plateau, where 11 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria it exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 25 percent reside and Tanzania, where 16 percent reside.
Gwanda Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Gwanda last name is chiefly 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.
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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
- 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
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