Kwaya Surname
Approximately 1,320 people bear this surname
Kwaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 422 | 1:419,770 | 21,772 |
| DR Congo | 322 | 1:229,440 | 22,327 |
| Tanzania | 321 | 1:164,927 | 14,641 |
| Cameroon | 126 | 1:164,834 | 17,742 |
| Uganda | 77 | 1:507,004 | 28,868 |
| Kenya | 19 | 1:2,430,521 | 36,895 |
| Zimbabwe | 10 | 1:1,543,824 | 78,460 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Kwaya (233) may also be a first name.
Kwaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kwaya has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can also be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kwaya is the 290,184th most commonly occurring last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 5,520,868 people. The last name Kwaya occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kwaya reside; 33 percent reside in West Africa and 33 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Kwaya is also the 587,225th most commonly held first name worldwide, borne by 233 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is held by 422 people, or 1 in 419,770. In Nigeria Kwaya is most frequent in: Adamawa, where 38 percent reside, Borno, where 16 percent reside and Delta, where 14 percent reside. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 24 percent reside and Tanzania, where 24 percent reside.
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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 Kwaya
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