Hwesa Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Hwesa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 1:3,859,560 | 114,807 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Hwesa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hwesa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hwesa is borne by more people in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hwesa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hwesa is the 1,736,881st most frequently used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hwesa live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The last name is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is carried by 105 people, or 1 in 163,039. Barring Malawi this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 4 percent live and Libya, where 1 percent live.
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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 Hwesa
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