Mukosa Surname
Approximately 8,473 people bear this surname
Mukosa Surname Definition:
Mukosa is a surname of the Bemba tribe, meaning: a person who exhibits great strength.
Mukosa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 4,509 | 1:3,515 | 442 |
| DR Congo | 3,393 | 1:21,774 | 2,751 |
| Zimbabwe | 347 | 1:44,491 | 6,844 |
| Uganda | 168 | 1:232,377 | 17,736 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mukosa (1,182) may also be a first name.
Mukosa Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Mukosa is a surname of the Bemba tribe, meaning: a person who exhibits great strength.
Mukosa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mukosa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mukosa is found most frequently in Zambia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mukosa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 59,551st most widespread family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 860,090 people. Mukosa is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mukosa live; 58 percent live in Southern Africa and 58 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Mukosa is also the 230,757th most frequently held first name world-wide It is held by 1,182 people.
The last name Mukosa is most frequent in Zambia, where it is borne by 4,509 people, or 1 in 3,515. In Zambia Mukosa is primarily concentrated in: Luapula Province, where 27 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 19 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 17 percent live. Beside Zambia it is found in 14 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 40 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Descriptions may contain details on the name's etymology, origin, ethnicity and history. They are largely reproduced from 3rd party sources; diligence is advised on accepting their validity - more information
- 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 Mukosa
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis