Keiwa Surname
Approximately 382 people bear this surname
Keiwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 318 | 1:145,220 | 11,656 |
| Papua New Guinea | 52 | 1:156,802 | 21,647 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Keiwa (678) may also be a first name.
Keiwa Demographics
Keiwa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Keiwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keiwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Keiwa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻴﻮﺍ) is found in Kenya more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Keiwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Keiwa is the 751,291st most frequent surname internationally, held by around 1 in 19,077,345 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Keiwa live; 85 percent live in East Africa and 83 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 318,141st most widely held first name worldwide, held by 678 people.
The last name is most widely held in Kenya, where it is carried by 318 people, or 1 in 145,220. In Kenya Keiwa is most frequent in: Narok County, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Kenya it exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 percent reside.
Keiwa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Keiwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Keiwa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻴﻮﺍ | kywa | 50 |
| ﻛﻴﻮ | kyw | 50 |
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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 Keiwa
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