Maweja Surname
Approximately 2,829 people bear this surname
Maweja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 2,182 | 1:33,859 | 4,218 |
| Malawi | 627 | 1:27,303 | 4,104 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
Maweja (121) may also be a first name.
Maweja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maweja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Maweja is found most frequently in The DR Congo. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Maweja? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 155,051st most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 2,576,015 people. The surname Maweja is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Maweja live; 77 percent live in Central Africa and 77 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Maweja is also the 848,089th most commonly held first name globally It is held by 121 people.
The surname Maweja is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 2,182 people, or 1 in 33,859. Excluding The DR Congo this last name is found in 16 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 22 percent reside and South Africa, where 0 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
- 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 Maweja
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