Kewe Surname
Approximately 793 people bear this surname
Kewe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 188 | 1:110,474 | 12,870 |
| Papua New Guinea | 185 | 1:44,074 | 5,397 |
| Nigeria | 180 | 1:984,126 | 41,775 |
| Tanzania | 99 | 1:534,764 | 34,532 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Ivory Coast | 27 | 1:854,490 | 22,281 |
| Indonesia | 27 | 1:4,898,118 | 234,077 |
| Germany | 26 | 1:3,096,364 | 143,912 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
The alternate forms: Kéwé (1) are calculated separately.
Kewe (2,124) may also be a first name.
Kewe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kewe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kewe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻛﻮﻩ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Kéwé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kewe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kewe is the 433,610th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 9,189,844 people. The surname Kewe is predominantly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Kewe are found; 31 percent are found in West Africa and 26 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kewe is also the 163,067th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 2,124 people.
This last name is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 188 people, or 1 in 110,474. In Cameroon Kewe is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 44 percent live, Far North Region, where 18 percent live and West Region, where 14 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon it is found in 22 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 23 percent live and Nigeria, where 23 percent live.
Kewe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Kewe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Kewe last name declined 78 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kewe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kewe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻛﻮﻩ | akwh | 20 |
| ﺍﻛﻮﺍ | akwa | 20 |
| ﻛﻴﻮﻯ | kywy | 20 |
| ﻛﻴﻮ | kyw | 20 |
| ﻛﻮﻱ | kwy | 20 |
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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 Kewe
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