Mwanakatwe Surname
Approximately 8,418 people bear this surname
Mwanakatwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 8,010 | 1:6,609 | 856 |
| Zambia | 384 | 1:41,276 | 4,054 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Mwanakatwe (17) may also be a first name.
Mwanakatwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mwanakatwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mwanakatwe is more commonly found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mwanakatwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Mwanakatwe is the 59,896th most commonly held last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 865,710 people. The surname Mwanakatwe occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mwanakatwe reside; 95 percent reside in East Africa and 95 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Mwanakatwe is also the 2,694,839th most common first name throughout the world It is held by 17 people.
This surname is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 8,010 people, or 1 in 6,609. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Rukwa Region, where 79 percent live, Katavi Region, where 6 percent live and Mbeya Region, where 3 percent live. Apart from Tanzania Mwanakatwe occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 5 percent live and England, where 0 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
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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 Mwanakatwe
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