Kuzwayo Surname

119,991st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,826 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Kuzwayo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kuzwayo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa3,6661:14,7781,859
Zimbabwe1401:110,27315,175
England131:4,286,005132,302
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716

Kuzwayo (36) may also be a first name.

Kuzwayo Last Name Facts

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

Kuzwayo is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kuzwayo? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kuzwayo is the 119,991st most frequently used surname on earth, held by around 1 in 1,904,743 people. Kuzwayo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kuzwayo are found; 100 percent are found in Southern Africa and 100 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Kuzwayo is also the 1,717,090th most frequently occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 36 people.

The surname is most widely held in South Africa, where it is borne by 3,666 people, or 1 in 14,778. In South Africa Kuzwayo is most frequent in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 73 percent reside, Gauteng, where 17 percent reside and Eastern Cape, where 4 percent reside. Barring South Africa it occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 4 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.

Kuzwayo Last Name Statistics demography

Kuzwayo earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 32.82% less than the national average, earning R 159,648 per year.

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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 Kuzwayo
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