Mkalama Surname
Approximately 35 people bear this surname
Mkalama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 23 | 1:2,301,809 | 48,176 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Mkalama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mkalama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mkalama is found in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mkalama? popularity and diffusion
Mkalama is the 3,323,005th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 208,215,598 people. Mkalama is predominantly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Mkalama reside; 83 percent reside in East Africa and 80 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
The last name Mkalama is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 23 people, or 1 in 2,301,809. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Singida Region, where 39 percent reside, Dar es Salaam Region, where 17 percent reside and Dodoma Region, where 17 percent reside. Without taking into account Tanzania this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 17 percent reside and The United States, where 9 percent reside.
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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 Mkalama
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