Gwekwerere Surname
Approximately 1,184 people bear this surname
Gwekwerere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 1,136 | 1:13,590 | 1,859 |
| England | 28 | 1:1,989,931 | 78,001 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
Gwekwerere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gwekwerere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gwekwerere occurs in Zimbabwe more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gwekwerere? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gwekwerere is the 316,633rd most frequently held family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 6,155,022 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gwekwerere live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
Gwekwerere is most commonly used in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 1,136 people, or 1 in 13,590. In Zimbabwe it is mostly found in: Harare Province, where 28 percent reside, Masvingo Province, where 15 percent reside and Mashonaland West Province, where 13 percent reside. Excluding Zimbabwe this surname occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gwekwerere
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