Kapembwe Surname
Approximately 217 people bear this surname
Kapembwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 151 | 1:104,966 | 8,288 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Kapembwe (17) may also be a first name.
Kapembwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kapembwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kapembwe is most common in Zambia. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kapembwe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,118,459th most commonly occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 33,583,161 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapembwe are found; 71 percent are found in Southern Africa and 71 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Kapembwe is also the 2,694,839th most frequently used first name throughout the world, held by 17 people.
Kapembwe is most common in Zambia, where it is held by 151 people, or 1 in 104,966. In Zambia it is mostly concentrated in: Northern Province, where 40 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 21 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 21 percent live. Apart from Zambia this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 29 percent live and Zimbabwe, 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 Kapembwe
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