Kikwete Surname
Approximately 529 people bear this surname
Kikwete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 399 | 1:132,686 | 12,381 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kikwete (29) may also be a first name.
Kikwete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kikwete Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kikwete is found in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Kikwete click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kikwete? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 590,101st most commonly occurring family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 13,776,079 people. Kikwete is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kikwete live; 76 percent live in East Africa and 76 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,951,561st most numerous first name in the world, borne by 29 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is carried by 399 people, or 1 in 132,686. In Tanzania Kikwete is primarily found in: Dar es Salaam Region, where 31 percent reside, Iringa Region, where 30 percent reside and Morogoro Region, where 19 percent reside. Excluding Tanzania this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 23 percent reside and Uganda, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Kikwete
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