Kendwa Surname
Approximately 361 people bear this surname
Kendwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 272 | 1:194,638 | 16,683 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kendwa (27) may also be a first name.
Kendwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kendwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kendwa has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kendwa? popularity and diffusion
Kendwa is the 783,439th most prevalent surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 20,187,108 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kendwa live; 76 percent live in East Africa and 76 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Kendwa is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly occurring first name globally, held by 27 people.
The surname Kendwa is most common in Tanzania, where it is carried by 272 people, or 1 in 194,638. In Tanzania Kendwa is most numerous in: Dodoma Region, where 63 percent are found, Singida Region, where 34 percent are found and Arusha Region, where 1 percent are found. Outside of Tanzania Kendwa occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 21 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Kendwa
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis