Kanawa Surname
Approximately 2,984 people bear this surname
Kanawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 1,155 | 1:6,275 | 1,305 |
| Japan | 655 | 1:195,182 | 8,864 |
| Nigeria | 589 | 1:300,752 | 16,796 |
| DR Congo | 185 | 1:399,349 | 33,942 |
| Zambia | 96 | 1:165,103 | 11,556 |
| Burkina Faso | 83 | 1:221,110 | 4,608 |
| Papua New Guinea | 45 | 1:181,194 | 25,163 |
| Brazil | 44 | 1:4,865,326 | 126,089 |
| Sierra Leone | 36 | 1:196,934 | 344 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| New Zealand | 19 | 1:238,333 | 22,631 |
| Zimbabwe | 17 | 1:908,132 | 59,260 |
| Indonesia | 16 | 1:8,265,575 | 327,276 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Kanawa (174) may also be a first name.
Kanawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kanawa occurs most in Togo. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Kanawa.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanawa? popularity and diffusion
Kanawa is the 148,221st most frequently held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 2,442,207 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 74 percent of Kanawa live; 63 percent live in West Africa and 62 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kanawa is also the 692,220th most frequent first name internationally, held by 174 people.
The last name Kanawa is most frequently used in Togo, where it is borne by 1,155 people, or 1 in 6,275. Barring Togo this last name is found in 25 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 22 percent reside and Nigeria, where 20 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 Kanawa
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