Kwaw Surname
Approximately 6,888 people bear this surname
Kwaw Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 6,719 | 1:4,022 | 581 |
| United States | 64 | 1:5,663,421 | 279,165 |
| England | 51 | 1:1,092,511 | 52,584 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| South Africa | 14 | 1:3,869,836 | 127,494 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Kwaw (1,232) may also be a first name.
Kwaw Demographics
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Kwaw Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwaw Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kwaw occurs in Ghana more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kwaw.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwaw? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 71,664th most numerous last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,058,006 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kwaw live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 225,375th most common first name world-wide, held by 1,232 people.
It is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is held by 6,719 people, or 1 in 4,022. Excluding Ghana this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, where 1 percent live.
Kwaw Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Kwaw last name are 8.79% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.56% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kwaw earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 68.1% less than the national average, earning R 75,816 per year; in United States they earn 20.74% more than the national average, earning $52,097 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.11% less than the national average, earning $46,152 CAD 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 Kwaw
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