Jowele Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Jowele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 14 | 1:145,183 | 12,726 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Jowele (106) may also be a first name.
Jowele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jowele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Jowele occurs more in Lesotho more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Jowele click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Jowele? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,772,636th most commonly held last name globally, held by around 1 in 428,679,172 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Jowele reside; 94 percent reside in Southern Africa and 94 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 915,176th most commonly used forename world-wide, borne by 106 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Lesotho, where it is held by 14 people, or 1 in 145,183. In Lesotho it is most prevalent in: Quthing District, where 93 percent live and Qacha's Nek District, where 7 percent live. Excluding Lesotho this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 12 percent live and The DR Congo, where 6 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
- 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 Jowele
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