Kang'ombe Surname

103,144th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,562 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Kang'ombe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kang'ombe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi2,1441:7,9851,197
Tanzania1,2591:42,0514,785
Zambia1,1301:14,0261,607
England151:3,714,537119,675
Kenya141:3,298,56438,706

Kang'ombe (155) may also be a first name.

Kang'ombe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kang'ombe Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kang'ombe has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kang'ombe? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kang'ombe is the 103,144th most widely held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 1,597,445 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kang'ombe are found; 72 percent are found in Southern Africa and 72 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 738,219th most frequently used given name world-wide, borne by 155 people.

The last name is most commonly used in Malawi, where it is borne by 2,144 people, or 1 in 7,985. Besides Malawi it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 28 percent reside and Zambia, where 25 percent reside.

Kang'ombe Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the last name is primarily Christian (80%) in Kenya.

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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 Kang'ombe
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