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 occurs in Zambia more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamawe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 335,329th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 6,625,042 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Kamawe are found; 78 percent are found in Southern Africa and 78 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,116,575th most frequently used first name in the world. It is borne by 75 people.
Kamawe is most numerous in Zambia, where it is borne by 861 people, or 1 in 18,409. In Zambia it is most common in: North-Western Province, where 56 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 15 percent are found and Southern Province, where 8 percent are found. Other than Zambia Kamawe is found in 9 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 9 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
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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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