Kafumbwe Surname
Approximately 431 people bear this surname
Kafumbwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 226 | 1:70,132 | 6,129 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Kafumbwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafumbwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kafumbwe occurs more in Zambia more than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Kafumbwe.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafumbwe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 687,524th most commonly occurring family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 16,908,459 people. The surname Kafumbwe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kafumbwe are found; 95 percent are found in Southern Africa and 95 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is borne by 226 people, or 1 in 70,132. In Zambia Kafumbwe is most common in: Central Province, where 48 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 27 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 15 percent are found. Beside Zambia this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Malawi, where 42 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Kafumbwe
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