Kunene Surname
Approximately 71,250 people bear this surname
Kunene Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 53,266 | 1:1,017 | 89 |
| Swaziland | 16,446 | 1:79 | 11 |
| Zimbabwe | 1,256 | 1:12,292 | 1,633 |
| England | 101 | 1:551,664 | 33,983 |
| United States | 49 | 1:7,397,121 | 336,459 |
| Lesotho | 32 | 1:63,517 | 8,935 |
| Philippines | 22 | 1:4,601,737 | 165,269 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Iceland | 5 | 1:76,018 | 4,442 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
Kunene (127) may also be a first name.
Kunene Demographics
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Kunene Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kunene Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kunene (Russian: Кунене) is found most frequently in South Africa. It can appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kunene? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 7,967th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 102,281 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kunene live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 825,494th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 127 people.
The surname Kunene is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is held by 53,266 people, or 1 in 1,017. In South Africa it is most numerous in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 58 percent live, Gauteng, where 25 percent live and Mpumalanga, where 9 percent live. Outside of South Africa Kunene is found in 34 countries. It is also found in Swaziland, where 23 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 2 percent live.
Kunene Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Kunene last name are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Kunene earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 264.65% more than the national average, earning R 866,556 per year and in United States they earn 18.36% less than the national average, earning $35,226 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kunene Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kunene in the Russian language | ||
| Кунене | kunene | - |
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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 Kunene
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