Makowa Surname
Approximately 4,779 people bear this surname
Makowa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 2,692 | 1:6,359 | 913 |
| Zimbabwe | 1,054 | 1:14,647 | 2,037 |
| Tanzania | 290 | 1:182,557 | 15,833 |
| Zambia | 262 | 1:60,496 | 5,474 |
| DR Congo | 144 | 1:513,053 | 40,658 |
| South Africa | 121 | 1:447,750 | 37,883 |
| Cameroon | 108 | 1:192,306 | 19,984 |
| Papua New Guinea | 52 | 1:156,802 | 21,647 |
| Nigeria | 24 | 1:7,380,948 | 165,663 |
| Poland | 19 | 1:2,000,460 | 98,816 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
Makowa (47) may also be a first name.
Makowa Demographics
Average Makowa Salary in
South Africa
R 397,584
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Makowa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Makowa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Makowa is found most frequently in Malawi. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Makowa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Makowa? popularity and diffusion
Makowa is the 99,113th most commonly occurring family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 1,524,910 people. The surname Makowa is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Makowa live; 86 percent live in Southern Africa and 86 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Makowa is also the 1,467,136th most frequently used forename in the world, held by 47 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is carried by 2,692 people, or 1 in 6,359. Without taking into account Malawi this last name exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 22 percent reside and Tanzania, where 6 percent reside.
Makowa Last Name Statistics demography
Makowa earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 67.31% more than the national average, earning R 397,584 per year.
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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 Makowa
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