Kodwiw Surname
Approximately 567 people bear this surname
Kodwiw Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 554 | 1:48,774 | 5,381 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
Kodwiw Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kodwiw Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kodwiw is more commonly found in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kodwiw? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kodwiw is the 559,940th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 12,852,815 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kodwiw live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Kodwiw is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is borne by 554 people, or 1 in 48,774. Aside from Ghana it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 2 percent are found and The United States, where 1 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
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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 Kodwiw
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