Machunga Surname
Approximately 286 people bear this surname
Machunga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| Kenya | 88 | 1:524,772 | 26,127 |
| Nigeria | 62 | 1:2,857,141 | 90,271 |
| Zimbabwe | 20 | 1:771,912 | 53,776 |
| Zambia | 3 | 1:5,283,307 | 43,479 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Machunga (178) may also be a first name.
Machunga Demographics
Machunga Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Machunga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Machunga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Machunga occurs more in Malawi more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Machunga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Machunga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Machunga is the 924,083rd most frequently held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 25,480,930 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Machunga reside; 45 percent reside in Southern Africa and 45 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Machunga is also the 683,417th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 178 people.
It is most frequent in Malawi, where it is borne by 105 people, or 1 in 163,039. Excluding Malawi this surname occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 31 percent live and Nigeria, where 22 percent live.
Machunga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Machunga last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Machunga
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