Kavela Surname
Approximately 932 people bear this surname
Kavela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 419 | 1:5,750 | 1,113 |
| Tanzania | 366 | 1:144,649 | 13,219 |
| India | 41 | 1:18,708,912 | 282,725 |
| Papua New Guinea | 32 | 1:254,804 | 34,943 |
| Nigeria | 20 | 1:8,857,138 | 186,571 |
| Angola | 16 | 1:1,686,826 | 3,823 |
| Kenya | 12 | 1:3,848,325 | 40,366 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Georgia | 3 | 1:1,248,515 | 28,066 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
Kavela (149) may also be a first name.
Kavela Demographics
Kavela Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kavela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kavela Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kavela (Hindi: कवेला, Marathi: कवेला) occurs in Namibia more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kavela? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 382,080th most frequent family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 7,819,255 people. Kavela is predominantly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Kavela live; 47 percent live in Southern Africa and 45 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 754,880th most commonly occurring given name world-wide. It is borne by 149 people.
Kavela is most frequently used in Namibia, where it is carried by 419 people, or 1 in 5,750. In Namibia Kavela is most common in: Ohangwena Region, where 40 percent reside, Oshikoto Region, where 21 percent reside and Khomas Region, where 12 percent reside. Outside of Namibia this last name is found in 17 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 39 percent reside and India, where 4 percent reside.
Kavela Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kavela Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kavela in the Marathi language | ||
| कवेला | kavela | - |
| Kavela in the Hindi language | ||
| कवेला | kavela | 91.18 |
| केवला | kevala | 5.88 |
| कावेला | kavela | 2.94 |
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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 Kavela
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