Kakawa Surname
Approximately 265 people bear this surname
Kakawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 120 | 1:1,065,369 | 20,699 |
| Nigeria | 62 | 1:2,857,141 | 90,271 |
| Papua New Guinea | 40 | 1:203,843 | 28,184 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| Uganda | 10 | 1:3,903,928 | 93,934 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kakawa (18) may also be a first name.
Kakawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kakawa (Marathi: काकवा) is held by more people in Japan than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakawa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kakawa is the 975,866th most commonly held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 27,500,173 people. Kakawa occurs predominantly in Asia, where 46 percent of Kakawa reside; 45 percent reside in East Asia and 45 percent reside in Nippono-Asia. Kakawa is also the 2,608,198th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 18 people.
The surname Kakawa is most commonly occurring in Japan, where it is carried by 120 people, or 1 in 1,065,369. In Japan Kakawa is most prevalent in: Okinawa Prefecture, where 37 percent reside, Kagoshima Prefecture, where 36 percent reside and Yamaguchi Prefecture, where 19 percent reside. Aside from Japan it is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 23 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kakawa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kakawa in the Marathi language | ||
| काकवा | kakava | - |
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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 Kakawa
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