Kwela Surname
Approximately 2,570 people bear this surname
Kwela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1,763 | 1:30,730 | 3,947 |
| DR Congo | 356 | 1:207,527 | 20,581 |
| Poland | 191 | 1:198,999 | 26,687 |
| Zimbabwe | 112 | 1:137,841 | 17,955 |
| Tanzania | 54 | 1:980,400 | 45,201 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 1:388,272 | 50,829 |
| Lesotho | 20 | 1:101,628 | 11,096 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Kwela (1,189) may also be a first name.
Kwela Demographics
Kwela Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kwela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kwela (Hindi: केवला) occurs more in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Kwela.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwela? popularity and diffusion
Kwela is the 168,194th most frequently held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 2,835,621 people. Kwela occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Kwela are found; 74 percent are found in Southern Africa and 74 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 229,946th most commonly occurring given name internationally It is held by 1,189 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is carried by 1,763 people, or 1 in 30,730. In South Africa Kwela is most prevalent in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 73 percent live, Gauteng, where 10 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 5 percent live. Apart from South Africa this last name exists in 18 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 14 percent live and Poland, where 7 percent live.
Kwela Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Muslim (50%) in Kenya.
Kwela earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 23.13% less than the national average, earning R 182,664 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kwela Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kwela in the Hindi language | ||
| केवला | kevala | - |
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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 Kwela
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