Mwaze Surname
Approximately 752 people bear this surname
Mwaze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 718 | 1:22,075 | 2,400 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 1:1,403,476 | 76,064 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Mwaze (12) may also be a first name.
Mwaze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mwaze Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mwaze is held by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mwaze? popularity and diffusion
Mwaze is the 451,630th most frequent surname on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 9,690,886 people. Mwaze is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mwaze reside; 97 percent reside in Southern Africa and 97 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most common forename in the world It is held by 12 people.
The surname Mwaze is most widely held in Zambia, where it is borne by 718 people, or 1 in 22,075. In Zambia Mwaze is most frequent in: Southern Province, where 75 percent live, Central Province, where 12 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 8 percent live. Outside of Zambia this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 3 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 1 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 Mwaze
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