Kalekanya Surname
Approximately 333 people bear this surname
Kalekanya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 258 | 1:61,434 | 5,541 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
Kalekanya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kalekanya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kalekanya occurs most in Zambia. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kalekanya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kalekanya is the 830,559th most frequently held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 21,884,522 people. Kalekanya occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kalekanya reside; 77 percent reside in Southern Africa and 77 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The last name Kalekanya is most common in Zambia, where it is held by 258 people, or 1 in 61,434. In Zambia it is primarily found in: Northern Province, where 37 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 25 percent live and Central Province, where 19 percent live. Apart from Zambia this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 23 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
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