Kanshamba Surname

1,380,086th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 159 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Kanshamba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kanshamba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia1561:101,6028,098
England11:55,718,059489,080
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Kanshamba Last Name Facts

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

The surname Kanshamba is found most in Zambia. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Kanshamba.

How Common Is The Last Name Kanshamba? popularity and diffusion

The last name Kanshamba is the 1,380,086th most commonly held family name globally, borne by around 1 in 45,833,622 people. The last name Kanshamba is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kanshamba are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most frequently held in Zambia, where it is borne by 156 people, or 1 in 101,602. In Zambia it is mostly found in: Copperbelt Province, where 46 percent live, North-Western Province, where 37 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 12 percent live. Not including Zambia this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent live and Uganda, where 1 percent live.

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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 Kanshamba
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