Kakwa Surname
Approximately 577 people bear this surname
Kakwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 280 | 1:263,856 | 24,810 |
| Nigeria | 147 | 1:1,205,053 | 48,659 |
| Cameroon | 105 | 1:197,801 | 20,464 |
| Uganda | 31 | 1:1,259,332 | 49,678 |
| Zambia | 5 | 1:3,169,984 | 35,680 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kakwa (29) may also be a first name.
Kakwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kakwa is more frequently found in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Kakwa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 552,857th most frequent surname globally It is held by around 1 in 12,630,062 people. The last name Kakwa occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kakwa live; 65 percent live in Central Africa and 65 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kakwa is also the 1,951,561st most commonly occurring first name in the world, borne by 29 people.
The surname is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 280 people, or 1 in 263,856. Excluding The DR Congo this last name exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 25 percent are found and Cameroon, where 18 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
- 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 Kakwa
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