Kapwele Surname
Approximately 152 people bear this surname
Kapwele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 131 | 1:120,992 | 9,219 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
Kapwele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kapwele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kapwele is carried by more people in Zambia than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Kapwele.
How Common Is The Last Name Kapwele? popularity and diffusion
Kapwele is the 1,422,956th most common family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 47,944,381 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapwele live; 86 percent live in Southern Africa and 86 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is held by 131 people, or 1 in 120,992. In Zambia it is mostly found in: Central Province, where 67 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 27 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 4 percent live. Apart from Zambia this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 14 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kapweele | 93 | 1 | / |
| Kapweiler | 88 | 2 | / |
| Kapwela | 86 | 755 | / |
| Kabwele | 86 | 331 | / |
| Kapwell | 86 | 13 | / |
| Kapwale | 86 | 7 | / |
| Kapuele | 86 | 1 | / |
| Kappweiler | 82 | 2 | / |
| Kampuele | 80 | 4 | / |
| Khapwale | 80 | 1 | / |
| Capwel | 77 | 0 | / |
| Kabwela | 71 | 8,041 | / |
| Capwell | 71 | 915 | / |
| Kabuele | 71 | 294 | / |
| Kapwili | 71 | 57 | / |
| Kapwila | 71 | 55 | / |
| Kapwali | 71 | 52 | / |
| Kabwile | 71 | 29 | / |
| Kabwale | 71 | 22 | / |
| Kavuele | 71 | 4 | / |
| Kabwole | 71 | 2 | / |
| Kapuela | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kobwele | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kebwele | 71 | 1 | / |
| Kabweli | 71 | 1 | / |
| Cappwell | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Kapwele
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