Kantengwe Surname
Approximately 434 people bear this surname
Kantengwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 385 | 1:41,169 | 4,047 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kantengwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kantengwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kantengwe is carried by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kantengwe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kantengwe is the 684,148th most common surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 16,791,580 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kantengwe live; 89 percent live in Southern Africa and 89 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname Kantengwe is most prevalent in Zambia, where it is borne by 385 people, or 1 in 41,169. In Zambia it is mostly concentrated in: Southern Province, where 74 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 9 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 8 percent live. Without taking into account Zambia it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 11 percent live and Uganda, where 0 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
- 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 Kantengwe
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