Masaninga Surname
Approximately 445 people bear this surname
Masaninga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 261 | 1:65,590 | 8,693 |
| Tanzania | 108 | 1:490,200 | 32,950 |
| Zambia | 64 | 1:247,655 | 15,017 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Masaninga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Masaninga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Masaninga is found most in Malawi. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Masaninga? popularity and diffusion
Masaninga is the 671,677th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 16,376,508 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Masaninga reside; 74 percent reside in Southern Africa and 74 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The last name Masaninga is most commonly occurring in Malawi, where it is borne by 261 people, or 1 in 65,590. Aside from Malawi it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 24 percent reside and Zambia, where 14 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
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