Mheza Surname
Approximately 394 people bear this surname
Mheza Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 359 | 1:147,470 | 13,430 |
| Zimbabwe | 29 | 1:532,353 | 42,865 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
Mheza Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mheza Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mheza is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mheza? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 734,496th most commonly held family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 18,496,309 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Mheza are found; 91 percent are found in East Africa and 91 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Mheza is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is held by 359 people, or 1 in 147,470. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Kigoma Region, where 75 percent live, Mbeya Region, where 21 percent live and Dodoma Region, where 1 percent live. Not including Tanzania this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 7 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
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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 Mheza
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