Kavango Surname
Approximately 104 people bear this surname
Kavango Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Namibia | 13 | 1:185,339 | 9,730 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Kavango Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kavango Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kavango occurs most in The DR Congo. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kavango click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kavango? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,806,862nd most widely held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 70,072,557 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Kavango live; 72 percent live in Central Africa and 72 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 985,061. Besides The DR Congo this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Namibia, where 13 percent live and Uganda, where 8 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 Kavango
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