Kawenda Surname
Approximately 1,136 people bear this surname
Kawenda Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 758 | 1:22,585 | 3,433 |
| DR Congo | 239 | 1:309,120 | 27,984 |
| Uganda | 63 | 1:619,671 | 32,575 |
| Zimbabwe | 63 | 1:245,051 | 26,542 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Kawenda (15) may also be a first name.
Kawenda Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kawenda Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kawenda occurs most in Malawi. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kawenda? popularity and diffusion
It is the 326,995th most frequently used last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 6,415,093 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kawenda reside; 73 percent reside in Southern Africa and 72 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most numerous first name worldwide It is held by 15 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Malawi, where it is borne by 758 people, or 1 in 22,585. Outside of Malawi it occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 21 percent are found and Uganda, where 6 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kawenda
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