Kwene Surname
Approximately 969 people bear this surname
Kwene Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 452 | 1:37,542 | 1,092 |
| Cameroon | 283 | 1:73,389 | 9,146 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Nigeria | 61 | 1:2,903,980 | 91,283 |
| Tanzania | 56 | 1:945,386 | 44,615 |
| Burkina Faso | 22 | 1:834,186 | 9,118 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Kwéné (1) are calculated separately.
Kwene (45) may also be a first name.
Kwene Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwene Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kwene is held by more people in Mali than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Kwéné. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwene? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kwene is the 370,695th most frequently occurring surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 7,520,687 people. Kwene occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kwene reside; 55 percent reside in West Africa and 47 percent reside in Mande Africa. It is also the 1,504,468th most common first name on earth, borne by 45 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Mali, where it is carried by 452 people, or 1 in 37,542. Beside Mali this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 29 percent live and The DR Congo, where 7 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
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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 Kwene
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