Kamwana Surname
Approximately 12,830 people bear this surname
Kamwana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 10,587 | 1:1,617 | 166 |
| Zambia | 727 | 1:21,802 | 2,379 |
| Zimbabwe | 505 | 1:30,571 | 4,705 |
| Kenya | 412 | 1:112,087 | 9,547 |
| DR Congo | 260 | 1:284,152 | 26,288 |
| Tanzania | 239 | 1:221,513 | 18,438 |
| Uganda | 66 | 1:591,504 | 31,661 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Kamwana (229) may also be a first name.
Kamwana Demographics
Kamwana Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
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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