Kamushe Surname
Approximately 227 people bear this surname
Kamushe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 199 | 1:79,648 | 6,785 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Kamushe (32) may also be a first name.
Kamushe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kamushe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kamushe is held by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamushe? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,085,744th most commonly occurring last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 32,103,727 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kamushe live; 88 percent live in Southern Africa and 88 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kamushe is also the 1,840,253rd most frequently held given name internationally. It is borne by 32 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is borne by 199 people, or 1 in 79,648. In Zambia Kamushe is most numerous in: Luapula Province, where 37 percent reside, Copperbelt Province, where 33 percent reside and Muchinga Province, where 24 percent reside. Apart from Zambia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 12 percent reside and Nigeria, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Kamushe
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