Kuwanda Surname

278,726th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,388 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Kuwanda Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kuwanda Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe6781:22,7703,440
Malawi5751:29,7724,476
Tanzania1061:499,44933,339
Kenya101:4,617,99042,693
South Africa91:6,019,745157,966
England51:11,143,612252,590
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543

Kuwanda (66) may also be a first name.

Kuwanda Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kuwanda Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Kuwanda is most common in Zimbabwe. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kuwanda? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 278,726th most frequent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 5,250,393 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kuwanda live; 91 percent live in Southern Africa and 91 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,201,840th most commonly held first name in the world, held by 66 people.

The last name is most commonly occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 678 people, or 1 in 22,770. In Zimbabwe it is most common in: Manicaland Province, where 33 percent live, Harare Province, where 18 percent live and Mashonaland West Province, where 13 percent live. Apart from Zimbabwe it occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Malawi, where 41 percent live and Tanzania, where 8 percent live.

Kuwanda Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Kuwanda surname is principally Muslim (67%) 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
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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 Kuwanda
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