Kanomba Surname

1,136,896th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 212 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Kanomba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kanomba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia1341:118,2839,069
DR Congo681:1,086,46468,260
Papua New Guinea101:815,37288,623

Kanomba Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kanomba is carried by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kanomba click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kanomba? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,136,896th most commonly occurring last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 34,375,217 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kanomba live; 63 percent live in Southern Africa and 63 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

Kanomba is most commonly occurring in Zambia, where it is carried by 134 people, or 1 in 118,283. In Zambia it is most numerous in: Lusaka Province, where 97 percent are found, Southern Province, where 2 percent are found and Central Province, where 1 percent are found. Aside from Zambia it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 32 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 5 percent are found.

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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 Kanomba
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