Mbawe Surname
Approximately 430 people bear this surname
Mbawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 157 | 1:109,039 | 12,664 |
| DR Congo | 137 | 1:539,267 | 42,095 |
| Cameroon | 33 | 1:629,366 | 47,277 |
| Uganda | 27 | 1:1,445,899 | 53,777 |
| Zimbabwe | 23 | 1:671,228 | 49,171 |
| Tanzania | 20 | 1:2,647,081 | 48,780 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Zambia | 9 | 1:1,761,102 | 32,119 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
Mbawe (18) may also be a first name.
Mbawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mbawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mbawe occurs most in Malawi. It may appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mbawe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 688,723rd most frequently held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 16,947,781 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Mbawe live; 45 percent live in Southern Africa and 45 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,608,198th most frequently held first name throughout the world, borne by 18 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is carried by 157 people, or 1 in 109,039. Other than Malawi Mbawe exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 32 percent are found and Cameroon, where 8 percent are found.
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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 Mbawe
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