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
Jowele is found most in Lesotho. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Jowele? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,772,636th most widespread surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 428,679,172 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Jowele live; 94 percent live in Southern Africa and 94 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 915,176th most commonly occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 106 people.
The surname Jowele is most common in Lesotho, where it is borne by 14 people, or 1 in 145,183. In Lesotho Jowele is mostly concentrated in: Quthing District, where 93 percent reside and Qacha's Nek District, where 7 percent reside. Other than Lesotho this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 12 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 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 Jowele
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