Kaluwa Surname
Approximately 14,123 people bear this surname
Kaluwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 8,365 | 1:2,047 | 240 |
| DR Congo | 2,312 | 1:31,955 | 3,980 |
| Tanzania | 1,886 | 1:28,071 | 3,372 |
| Zambia | 702 | 1:22,578 | 2,430 |
| Namibia | 440 | 1:5,476 | 1,040 |
| Kenya | 125 | 1:369,439 | 21,332 |
| Papua New Guinea | 122 | 1:66,834 | 8,731 |
| Zimbabwe | 88 | 1:175,435 | 21,257 |
| South Africa | 32 | 1:1,693,053 | 82,821 |
| England | 16 | 1:3,482,379 | 114,324 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
Kaluwa (1,045) may also be a first name.
Kaluwa Demographics
Kaluwa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kaluwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaluwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kaluwa (Hindi: कलुवा, Oriya: କାଳୁୱା, Tibetan: ཀཱ་ལུ་ཝ་) occurs more in Malawi more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaluwa? popularity and diffusion
Kaluwa is the 37,288th most frequent last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 516,006 people. The surname Kaluwa is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kaluwa reside; 68 percent reside in Southern Africa and 68 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Kaluwa is also the 247,794th most widespread first name on earth. It is borne by 1,045 people.
Kaluwa is most commonly occurring in Malawi, where it is held by 8,365 people, or 1 in 2,047. Besides Malawi it exists in 21 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent are found and Tanzania, where 13 percent are found.
Kaluwa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Kaluwa surname is primarily Christian (80%) in Kenya.
Kaluwa earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 19.91% less than the national average, earning R 190,320 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kaluwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kaluwa in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀཱ་ལུ་ཝ་ | kaluwa | - |
| Kaluwa in the Oriya language | ||
| କାଳୁୱା | kaluwa | - |
| Kaluwa in the Hindi language | ||
| कलुवा | kaluva | 71.88 |
| कलूवा | kaluva | 12.5 |
| कलुआ | kalu'a | 6.25 |
| कालवा | kalava | 3.13 |
| कलउवा | kala'uva | 3.13 |
| कलूआ | kalu'a | 3.13 |
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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 Kaluwa
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