Kaweya Surname
Approximately 631 people bear this surname
Kaweya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 296 | 1:178,857 | 15,600 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Zimbabwe | 61 | 1:253,086 | 27,132 |
| DR Congo | 55 | 1:1,343,265 | 79,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kaweya (27) may also be a first name.
Kaweya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaweya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kaweya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻳﻪ) is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaweya? popularity and diffusion
Kaweya is the 516,587th most frequently held family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 11,549,201 people. Kaweya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kaweya live; 47 percent live in East Africa and 47 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Kaweya is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 27 people.
The last name Kaweya is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 296 people, or 1 in 178,857. In Tanzania Kaweya is primarily found in: Dodoma Region, where 93 percent reside, Dar es Salaam Region, where 3 percent reside and Iringa Region, where 1 percent reside. Besides Tanzania this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 29 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 10 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kaweya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kaweya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻳﻪ | kwyh | 66.67 |
| ﻛﻮﻱ | kwy | 33.33 |
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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 Kaweya
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