Kiwaya Surname
Approximately 1,593 people bear this surname
Kiwaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,300 | 1:56,830 | 6,798 |
| Tanzania | 186 | 1:284,632 | 22,243 |
| Burkina Faso | 82 | 1:223,806 | 4,643 |
| Kenya | 13 | 1:3,552,300 | 39,474 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kiwaya (344) may also be a first name.
Kiwaya Demographics
Kiwaya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kiwaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kiwaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kiwaya is more commonly found in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kiwaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 249,252nd most frequently used surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 4,574,731 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kiwaya live; 82 percent live in Central Africa and 82 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kiwaya is also the 470,492nd most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 344 people.
It is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is held by 1,300 people, or 1 in 56,830. Besides The DR Congo this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 12 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 5 percent live.
Kiwaya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Kiwaya surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Kiwaya
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