Kafwile Surname
Approximately 338 people bear this surname
Kafwile Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 296 | 1:178,857 | 15,600 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Zambia | 8 | 1:1,981,240 | 32,669 |
Kafwile Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafwile Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kafwile is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafwile? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kafwile is the 821,713th most frequently occurring family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 21,560,787 people. Kafwile occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kafwile live; 88 percent live in East Africa and 88 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
Kafwile is most common in Tanzania, where it is carried by 296 people, or 1 in 178,857. In Tanzania it is most prevalent in: Songwe Region, where 100 percent live. Excluding Tanzania Kafwile exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 10 percent live and Zambia, where 2 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 Kafwile
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