Kakungwa Surname

953,750th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 274 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Kakungwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kakungwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe1461:105,74114,710
DR Congo1231:600,64745,387
Zambia31:5,283,30743,479
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
England11:55,718,059489,080

Kakungwa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kakungwa Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kakungwa is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kakungwa? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 953,750th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 26,596,883 people. The last name Kakungwa is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kakungwa live; 54 percent live in Southern Africa and 54 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most frequent in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 146 people, or 1 in 105,741. In Zimbabwe it is mostly concentrated in: Mashonaland East Province, where 42 percent are found, Mashonaland Central Province, where 27 percent are found and Harare Province, where 14 percent are found. Excluding Zimbabwe this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 45 percent are found and Zambia, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kaukungwa94283/
Kakunkwa8821/
Kakungwe885/
Kacungwa884/
Kakungua881/
Kakongwa881/
Kaukungua824/
Kaccungwa821/
Kakongwe75187/
Kokungba7534/
Kakunguo758/
Kacungwe754/
Kakonkwa751/
Kakunkwe751/
Kakhongwe71273/
Kakongue631/
Kokoengwe592/
Koukoungui5616/

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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 Kakungwa
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