Kaungwa Surname
Approximately 176 people bear this surname
Kaungwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 70 | 1:756,309 | 41,721 |
| Zimbabwe | 68 | 1:227,033 | 25,258 |
| Nigeria | 25 | 1:7,085,710 | 162,099 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Zambia | 5 | 1:3,169,984 | 35,680 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Kaungwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaungwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kaungwa has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaungwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kaungwa is the 1,290,735th most numerous last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 41,406,511 people. The last name Kaungwa is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Kaungwa are found; 42 percent are found in Southern Africa and 42 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
Kaungwa is most frequently used in Tanzania, where it is borne by 70 people, or 1 in 756,309. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Dar es Salaam Region, where 99 percent live and Tanga Region, where 1 percent live. Other than Tanzania Kaungwa occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 39 percent live and Nigeria, where 14 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 Kaungwa
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