Mwelekete Surname
Approximately 252 people bear this surname
Mwelekete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 250 | 1:211,766 | 17,801 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Mwelekete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mwelekete Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mwelekete occurs in Tanzania more than any other country/territory. It may appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mwelekete? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,009,375th most commonly occurring last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 28,918,833 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mwelekete live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 99 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is held by 250 people, or 1 in 211,766. In Tanzania Mwelekete is most frequent in: Rukwa Region, where 80 percent live and Mbeya Region, where 20 percent live. Excluding Tanzania Mwelekete is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 0 percent live and Zimbabwe, 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
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