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
The surname Kusiwa is found most frequently in Malawi. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kusiwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kusiwa is the 1,290,735th most frequently held surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 41,406,511 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kusiwa reside; 75 percent reside in Southern Africa and 75 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 644,447th most frequently held first name on earth, held by 198 people.
Kusiwa is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is held by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Beside Malawi it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs 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
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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 Kusiwa
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