Kigwinya Surname
Approximately 795 people bear this surname
Kigwinya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 793 | 1:66,761 | 7,045 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kigwinya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kigwinya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kigwinya is found in Tanzania more than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kigwinya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 432,755th most widely held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 9,166,724 people. Kigwinya occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kigwinya are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 100 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The last name Kigwinya is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is carried by 793 people, or 1 in 66,761. In Tanzania Kigwinya is mostly concentrated in: Kigoma Region, where 87 percent are found, Dodoma Region, where 11 percent are found and Tabora Region, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Burundi, where 0 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Kigwinya
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