Kwayaya Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Kwayaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 40 | 1:385,956 | 35,257 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Kwayaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwayaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kwayaya has its highest incidence in Zimbabwe. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwayaya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,055,934th most frequently held family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 177,745,022 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kwayaya are found; 98 percent are found in Southern Africa and 98 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most numerous in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 40 people, or 1 in 385,956. In Zimbabwe it is most frequent in: Midlands Province, where 73 percent reside, Bulawayo Province, where 25 percent reside and Mashonaland Central Province, where 3 percent reside. Other than Zimbabwe Kwayaya occurs in one country. It is also found in Tanzania, where 2 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 Kwayaya
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