Kawoya Surname
Approximately 1,231 people bear this surname
Kawoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 1,169 | 1:33,395 | 4,467 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| England | 15 | 1:3,714,537 | 119,675 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kawoya (13) may also be a first name.
Kawoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kawoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kawoya is borne by more people in Uganda than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kawoya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kawoya is the 307,015th most widespread surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 5,920,021 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kawoya are found; 95 percent are found in East Africa and 95 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Kawoya is also the 3,159,357th most numerous first name on earth, held by 13 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Uganda, where it is borne by 1,169 people, or 1 in 33,395. In Uganda it is most prevalent in: Kampala District, where 17 percent live, Wakiso District, where 14 percent live and Mukono District, where 8 percent live. Not including Uganda this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 3 percent live and England, where 1 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 Kawoya
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