Mbira Surname
Approximately 3,072 people bear this surname
Mbira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 646 | 1:71,486 | 6,747 |
| Zimbabwe | 614 | 1:25,144 | 3,820 |
| Malawi | 471 | 1:36,346 | 5,352 |
| Gabon | 455 | 1:4,152 | 740 |
| South Africa | 409 | 1:132,464 | 15,455 |
| Indonesia | 228 | 1:580,040 | 46,367 |
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Congo | 69 | 1:72,306 | 6,384 |
| Uganda | 35 | 1:1,115,408 | 46,348 |
| Nigeria | 23 | 1:7,701,859 | 170,290 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Mbira (197) may also be a first name.
Mbira Demographics
Mbira Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mbira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mbira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mbira (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺒﻴﺮﻩ) is most common in Kenya. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mbira? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 144,603rd most frequently used family name on earth, held by around 1 in 2,372,248 people. The last name Mbira is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Mbira reside; 49 percent reside in Southern Africa and 49 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Mbira is also the 646,152nd most prevalent first name world-wide It is held by 197 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is held by 646 people, or 1 in 71,486. In Kenya it is mostly concentrated in: Kiambu County, where 28 percent live, Nairobi County, where 22 percent live and Busia County, where 11 percent live. Not including Kenya it exists in 19 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 20 percent live and Malawi, where 15 percent live.
Mbira Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Mbira earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 60.64% less than the national average, earning R 93,540 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mbira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mbira in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺒﻴﺮﻩ | ambyrh | - |
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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 Mbira
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