Hawanga Surname
Approximately 1,337 people bear this surname
Hawanga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 927 | 1:2,599 | 416 |
| Tanzania | 235 | 1:225,283 | 18,694 |
| Cameroon | 136 | 1:152,714 | 16,743 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
Hawanga (26) may also be a first name.
Hawanga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hawanga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hawanga occurs most in Namibia. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Hawanga.
How Common Is The Last Name Hawanga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 287,196th most prevalent last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 5,450,670 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Hawanga reside; 71 percent reside in Southern Africa and 71 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,084,397th most frequent given name in the world, held by 26 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Namibia, where it is held by 927 people, or 1 in 2,599. In Namibia Hawanga is most prevalent in: Kavango West Region, where 93 percent reside, Omusati Region, where 6 percent reside and Erongo Region, where 0 percent reside. Other than Namibia it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 18 percent reside and Cameroon, where 10 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
- 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 Hawanga
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