Kasuwa Surname

91,972nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,200 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
DR Congo

Kasuwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kasuwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3,0281:58,5024,391
DR Congo1,4571:50,7076,124
India5631:1,362,46152,776
Zimbabwe1221:126,54316,872
Papua New Guinea141:582,40870,330
Uganda71:5,577,040114,218
Zambia51:3,169,98435,680
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047

Kasuwa (5,991) may also be a first name.

Kasuwa Last Name Facts

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

The surname Kasuwa occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Kasuwa? popularity and diffusion

Kasuwa is the 91,972nd most widely held family name globally It is held by around 1 in 1,401,451 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Kasuwa live; 58 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kasuwa is also the 85,754th most commonly held first name throughout the world, borne by 5,991 people.

Kasuwa is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 3,028 people, or 1 in 58,502. In Nigeria Kasuwa is mostly found in: Plateau, where 16 percent live, Kaduna, where 15 percent live and Niger, where 13 percent live. Barring Nigeria this surname exists in 9 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 28 percent live and India, where 11 percent live.

Kasuwa Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Muslim (58%) in Nigeria.

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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 Kasuwa
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