Hwacha Surname
Approximately 228 people bear this surname
Hwacha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 211 | 1:73,167 | 10,843 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hwacha (77) may also be a first name.
Hwacha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hwacha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hwacha (Arabic: حواشا) is found most frequently in Zimbabwe. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hwacha? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hwacha is the 1,082,743rd most commonly held last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 31,962,921 people. The last name Hwacha is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Hwacha live; 95 percent live in Southern Africa and 95 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Hwacha is also the 1,100,117th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 77 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 211 people, or 1 in 73,167. In Zimbabwe Hwacha is most frequent in: Midlands Province, where 55 percent live, Harare Province, where 16 percent live and Manicaland Province, where 14 percent live. Barring Zimbabwe this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 4 percent live and South Africa, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hwacha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hwacha in the Arabic language | ||
| حواشا | hwasha | - |
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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 Hwacha
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