Mbaniwa Surname

5,391,485th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 13 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Mbaniwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mbaniwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa71:7,739,672177,858
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260

Mbaniwa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Mbaniwa Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Mbaniwa is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Mbaniwa? popularity and diffusion

The surname Mbaniwa is the 5,391,485th most prevalent family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 560,580,455 people. The surname Mbaniwa occurs mostly in Africa, where 77 percent of Mbaniwa live; 62 percent live in Southern Africa and 62 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname Mbaniwa is most widely held in South Africa, where it is held by 7 people, or 1 in 7,739,672. In South Africa Mbaniwa is mostly found in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 71 percent are found, Gauteng, where 14 percent are found and North West, where 14 percent are found. Barring South Africa this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 23 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 8 percent are found.

Mbaniwa Last Name Statistics demography

Mbaniwa earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 85.08% less than the national average, earning R 35,460 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
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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 Mbaniwa
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