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 last name Kigwinya is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kigwinya? popularity and diffusion
Kigwinya is the 432,755th most commonly used last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,166,724 people. This last name is primarily found 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 is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is held by 793 people, or 1 in 66,761. In Tanzania it is most prevalent in: Kigoma Region, where 87 percent live, Dodoma Region, where 11 percent live and Tabora Region, where 1 percent live. Other than Tanzania Kigwinya is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Burundi, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 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 Kigwinya
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