Mwanyama Surname
Approximately 753 people bear this surname
Mwanyama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 288 | 1:59,441 | 8,056 |
| Kenya | 287 | 1:160,906 | 12,601 |
| Tanzania | 156 | 1:339,369 | 25,249 |
| Zimbabwe | 17 | 1:908,132 | 59,260 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Mwanyama Demographics
Mwanyama Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mwanyama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mwanyama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mwanyama has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Mwanyama.
How Common Is The Last Name Mwanyama? popularity and diffusion
The last name Mwanyama is the 451,199th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 9,678,016 people. The surname Mwanyama is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mwanyama are found; 59 percent are found in East Africa and 59 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
It is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is borne by 288 people, or 1 in 59,441. Outside of Malawi it occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 38 percent live and Tanzania, where 21 percent live.
Mwanyama Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is chiefly Christian (80%) in Kenya.
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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
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