Kwelele Surname
Approximately 67 people bear this surname
Kwelele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 59 | 1:3,002,420 | 93,371 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kwelele (17) may also be a first name.
Kwelele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwelele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kwelele occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwelele? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kwelele is the 2,333,370th most commonly used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 108,769,342 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kwelele reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 88 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 17 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 59 people, or 1 in 3,002,420. In Nigeria Kwelele is most prevalent in: Delta, where 63 percent reside, Lagos, where 29 percent reside and Oyo, where 5 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 4 percent reside and Ireland, where 1 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
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- 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 Kwelele
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