Kwanyana Surname

1,943,350th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 92 people bear this surname

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

Kwanyana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kwanyana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa911:595,35945,471
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989

Kwanyana (24) may also be a first name.

Kwanyana Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kwanyana is found most in South Africa. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kwanyana? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,943,350th most commonly used family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 79,212,456 people. The last name Kwanyana occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kwanyana reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Kwanyana is also the 2,187,323rd most numerous given name on earth. It is borne by 24 people.

The surname Kwanyana is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is held by 91 people, or 1 in 595,359. In South Africa Kwanyana is mostly found in: Mpumalanga, where 47 percent live, Gauteng, where 32 percent live and KwaZulu-Natal, where 18 percent live. Outside of South Africa this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in Zambia, where 1 percent live.

Kwanyana Last Name Statistics demography

Kwanyana earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 27.11% less than the national average, earning R 173,208 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
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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 Kwanyana
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