Mbawana Surname

4,649,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18 people bear this surname

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

Mbawana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Mbawana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa111:4,925,246143,631
Tanzania41:13,235,40384,310
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406

Mbawana Last Name Facts

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

The last name Mbawana is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Mbawana? popularity and diffusion

The last name Mbawana is the 4,649,889th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mbawana live; 72 percent live in Southern Africa and 72 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

Mbawana is most widespread in South Africa, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 4,925,246. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Gauteng, where 82 percent live, KwaZulu-Natal, where 9 percent live and Mpumalanga, where 9 percent live. Besides South Africa Mbawana is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 22 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 11 percent live.

Mbawana Last Name Statistics demography

Mbawana earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 73.22% less than the national average, earning R 63,648 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 Mbawana
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