Mwale Surname
Approximately 314,945 people bear this surname
Mwale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 150,696 | 1:105 | 7 |
| Malawi | 143,982 | 1:119 | 5 |
| Zimbabwe | 7,886 | 1:1,958 | 113 |
| DR Congo | 4,453 | 1:16,591 | 2,078 |
| Kenya | 2,558 | 1:18,053 | 2,133 |
| South Africa | 2,517 | 1:21,525 | 2,727 |
| Tanzania | 1,977 | 1:26,779 | 3,239 |
| England | 278 | 1:200,425 | 17,512 |
| Botswana | 143 | 1:15,293 | 2,975 |
| Swaziland | 101 | 1:12,853 | 583 |
| United States | 90 | 1:4,027,321 | 218,060 |
| Uganda | 72 | 1:542,212 | 30,029 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Pakistan | 21 | 1:8,506,852 | 44,204 |
| Iceland | 21 | 1:18,100 | 1,499 |
| Australia | 15 | 1:1,799,713 | 85,184 |
| Scotland | 10 | 1:535,382 | 20,332 |
| Sudan | 9 | 1:4,167,799 | 5,799 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Russia | 7 | 1:20,589,008 | 462,339 |
| Norway | 7 | 1:734,612 | 50,907 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Germany | 5 | 1:16,101,092 | 397,699 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Lesotho | 2 | 1:1,016,279 | 21,693 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Mwale (3,152) may also be a first name.
Mwale Demographics
Average Mwale Salary in
United States
$37,256 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Mwale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mwale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mwale (Arabic: موالي) is more commonly found in Zambia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Mwale? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,749th most widespread surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 23,139 people. The last name Mwale is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mwale are found; 97 percent are found in Southern Africa and 97 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 128,133rd most frequent given name on earth, held by 3,152 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is borne by 150,696 people, or 1 in 105. In Zambia it is primarily concentrated in: Eastern Province, where 53 percent are found, Lusaka Province, where 25 percent are found and Copperbelt Province, where 10 percent are found. Without taking into account Zambia it occurs in 53 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 46 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 3 percent are found.
Mwale Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is chiefly Christian (97%) in Kenya.
The amount Mwale earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 4.75% less than the national average, earning R 226,356 per year; in United States they earn 13.66% less than the national average, earning $37,256 USD per year and in Canada they earn 32.48% more than the national average, earning $65,818 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mwale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mwale in the Arabic language | ||
| موالي | mwaly | - |
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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 Mwale
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