Kawia Surname
Approximately 737 people bear this surname
Kawia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 432 | 1:122,550 | 11,614 |
| Kenya | 129 | 1:357,984 | 20,934 |
| Papua New Guinea | 81 | 1:100,663 | 13,542 |
| Indonesia | 58 | 1:2,280,159 | 138,233 |
| Ivory Coast | 22 | 1:1,048,692 | 25,281 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
Kawia (348) may also be a first name.
Kawia Demographics
Kawia Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kawia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kawia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kawia is most common in Tanzania. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kawia.
How Common Is The Last Name Kawia? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 458,583rd most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,888,122 people. The last name Kawia occurs predominantly in Africa, where 79 percent of Kawia reside; 76 percent reside in East Africa and 76 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Kawia is also the 467,354th most commonly held first name worldwide, held by 348 people.
This surname is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is carried by 432 people, or 1 in 122,550. In Tanzania Kawia is most frequent in: Rukwa Region, where 40 percent reside, Arusha Region, where 21 percent reside and Iringa Region, where 18 percent reside. Other than Tanzania Kawia is found in 13 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 18 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent reside.
Kawia Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Kawia
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