Kusiwa Surname
Approximately 176 people bear this surname
Kusiwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Kusiwa (198) may also be a first name.
Kusiwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kusiwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kusiwa occurs most in Malawi. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kusiwa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,290,735th most widely held family name globally, borne by around 1 in 41,406,511 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kusiwa live; 75 percent live in Southern Africa and 75 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 644,447th most numerous first name globally, held by 198 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Malawi, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Excluding Malawi this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 23 percent are found and Tanzania, 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
- 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 Kusiwa
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