Kweka Surname
Approximately 19,576 people bear this surname
Kweka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 19,383 | 1:2,731 | 370 |
| Cameroon | 79 | 1:262,900 | 25,427 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Zimbabwe | 34 | 1:454,066 | 38,992 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Kenya | 7 | 1:6,597,129 | 51,431 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
Kweka (40) may also be a first name.
Kweka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kweka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kweka occurs most in Tanzania. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kweka? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kweka is the 27,461st most frequently held last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 372,269 people. Kweka is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kweka are found; 99 percent are found in East Africa and 99 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,614,485th most frequently occurring first name globally, borne by 40 people.
This last name is most common in Tanzania, where it is held by 19,383 people, or 1 in 2,731. In Tanzania Kweka is mostly concentrated in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 36 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 14 percent live and Arusha Region, where 12 percent live. Aside from Tanzania Kweka exists in 15 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 0 percent live and The DR Congo, where 0 percent live.
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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 Kweka
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