Kaungu Surname
Approximately 927 people bear this surname
Kaungu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 453 | 1:34,989 | 3,537 |
| DR Congo | 315 | 1:234,538 | 22,701 |
| Kenya | 112 | 1:412,321 | 22,772 |
| Tanzania | 33 | 1:1,604,291 | 47,186 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kaungu (199) may also be a first name.
Kaungu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaungu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kaungu is found most in Zambia. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaungu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kaungu is the 383,720th most prevalent surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 7,861,430 people. The surname Kaungu occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kaungu are found; 49 percent are found in Southern Africa and 49 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 642,605th most numerous first name in the world, borne by 199 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Zambia, where it is held by 453 people, or 1 in 34,989. In Zambia Kaungu is most frequent in: Copperbelt Province, where 32 percent live, Western Province, where 20 percent live and Northern Province, where 13 percent live. Without taking into account Zambia Kaungu occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 34 percent live and Kenya, where 12 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 Kaungu
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