Kamawe Surname
Approximately 1,100 people bear this surname
Kamawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 861 | 1:18,409 | 2,062 |
| Papua New Guinea | 108 | 1:75,497 | 9,888 |
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Kenya | 18 | 1:2,565,550 | 37,160 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Kamawe (75) may also be a first name.
Kamawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kamawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kamawe is most common in Zambia. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamawe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kamawe is the 335,329th most prevalent surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 6,625,042 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Kamawe live; 78 percent live in Southern Africa and 78 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,116,575th most commonly used first name throughout the world, borne by 75 people.
The surname is most widespread in Zambia, where it is held by 861 people, or 1 in 18,409. In Zambia it is most numerous in: North-Western Province, where 56 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 15 percent live and Southern Province, where 8 percent live. Outside of Zambia this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent live and The DR Congo, where 9 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kamawe
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