Maweze Surname
Approximately 845 people bear this surname
Maweze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 841 | 1:87,847 | 10,022 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Maweze (77) may also be a first name.
Maweze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maweze Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Maweze is borne by more people in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Maweze? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 412,606th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 8,624,315 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Maweze are found; 100 percent are found in Central Africa and 100 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Maweze is also the 1,100,117th most frequently used forename at a global level, borne by 77 people.
The surname is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is held by 841 people, or 1 in 87,847. Not including The DR Congo this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent reside and Angola, 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 Maweze
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