Mankwa Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Mankwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 31 | 1:511,288 | 22,588 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mankwa (86) may also be a first name.
Mankwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mankwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mankwa occurs more in Zambia more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mankwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mankwa is the 2,352,516th most commonly used family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 110,417,362 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Mankwa live; 48 percent live in Southern Africa and 48 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,032,266th most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 86 people.
The surname is most widely held in Zambia, where it is carried by 31 people, or 1 in 511,288. In Zambia it is most numerous in: Luapula Province, where 97 percent are found and Copperbelt Province, where 3 percent are found. Barring Zambia it occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 24 percent are found and Kenya, where 14 percent are found.
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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 Mankwa
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