Kikwala Surname
Approximately 592 people bear this surname
Kikwala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 509 | 1:104,011 | 10,153 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kikwala (28) may also be a first name.
Kikwala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kikwala Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kikwala is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kikwala.
How Common Is The Last Name Kikwala? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 542,091st most commonly held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 12,310,044 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kikwala reside; 86 percent reside in East Africa and 86 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Kikwala is also the 1,994,417th most numerous given name internationally. It is borne by 28 people.
The last name Kikwala is most frequently used in Tanzania, where it is carried by 509 people, or 1 in 104,011. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Katavi Region, where 54 percent live, Rukwa Region, where 44 percent live and Dodoma Region, where 1 percent live. Excluding Tanzania this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 14 percent live and Uganda, 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
- 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 Kikwala
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