Kamwai Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Kamwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 41 | 1:1,872,744 | 68,622 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Kamwai (47) may also be a first name.
Kamwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kamwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kamwai is borne by more people in Iran than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kamwai.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamwai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,091,648th most commonly held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 89,969,703 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 68 percent of Kamwai reside; 51 percent reside in South Asia and 51 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 1,467,136th most commonly used first name on earth, borne by 47 people.
Kamwai is most frequently occurring in Iran, where it is held by 41 people, or 1 in 1,872,744. In Iran it is mostly concentrated in: Tehran Province, where 49 percent live, Isfahan Province, where 29 percent live and Markazi Province, where 20 percent live. Not including Iran it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 17 percent live and Kenya, where 12 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
- 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 Kamwai
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