Kafunde Surname
Approximately 226 people bear this surname
Kafunde Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| DR Congo | 89 | 1:830,108 | 57,152 |
| Zimbabwe | 31 | 1:498,008 | 41,116 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Kafunde Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafunde Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kafunde occurs more in Malawi more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafunde? popularity and diffusion
Kafunde is the 1,088,856th most frequently used surname internationally, held by around 1 in 32,245,778 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kafunde live; 61 percent live in Southern Africa and 61 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Kafunde is most numerous in Malawi, where it is held by 105 people, or 1 in 163,039. Excluding Malawi this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 39 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 14 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 Kafunde
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