Kanawe Surname
Approximately 693 people bear this surname
Kanawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Papua New Guinea | 43 | 1:189,621 | 26,314 |
| Benin | 20 | 1:516,780 | 33,864 |
| Zambia | 8 | 1:1,981,240 | 32,669 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Kanawe (34) may also be a first name.
Kanawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanawe occurs most in Togo. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanawe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 481,056th most common last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,515,939 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Kanawe live; 65 percent live in West Africa and 64 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kanawe is also the 1,775,424th most numerous first name in the world. It is borne by 34 people.
The surname Kanawe is most widely held in Togo, where it is carried by 420 people, or 1 in 17,257. Aside from Togo this last name exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 26 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 6 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
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- 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 Kanawe
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