Kamwana Surname

40,800th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 12,830 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Kamwana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kamwana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi10,5871:1,617166
Zambia7271:21,8022,379
Zimbabwe5051:30,5714,705
Kenya4121:112,0879,547
DR Congo2601:284,15226,288
Tanzania2391:221,51318,438
Uganda661:591,50431,661
Papua New Guinea121:679,47678,554
South Africa111:4,925,246143,631
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
England11:55,718,059489,080
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628

Kamwana (229) may also be a first name.

Kamwana Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kamwana Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kamwana is found most frequently in Malawi. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kamwana? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 40,800th most commonly occurring family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 568,008 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kamwana live; 92 percent live in Southern Africa and 92 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 593,349th most numerous given name world-wide It is held by 229 people.

Kamwana is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is carried by 10,587 people, or 1 in 1,617. Apart from Malawi this last name occurs in 17 countries. It is also found in Zambia, where 6 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 4 percent reside.

Kamwana Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Kamwana earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 26.21% less than the national average, earning R 175,344 per year.

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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 Kamwana
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