Kanwei Surname
Approximately 226 people bear this surname
Kanwei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 217 | 1:816,326 | 36,276 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kanwei (1,776) may also be a first name.
Kanwei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanwei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kanwei is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. For other possible spellings of Kanwei click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanwei? popularity and diffusion
Kanwei is the 1,088,856th most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 32,245,778 people. The last name Kanwei occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Kanwei reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 181,540th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 1,776 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 217 people, or 1 in 816,326. In Nigeria it is most common in: Delta, where 29 percent live, Lagos, where 18 percent live and Kaduna, where 14 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent live and Ireland, 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 Kanwei
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