Namawa Surname

277,054th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,399 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Uganda
Highest density in:
Uganda

Namawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Namawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Uganda8141:47,9605,880
Zambia2621:60,4965,474
Kenya1291:357,98420,934
Ivory Coast1231:187,5718,219
Niger291:661,79416,082
Zimbabwe231:671,22849,171
Cameroon71:2,967,010123,373
Nigeria61:29,523,793355,097
Benin11:10,335,602103,742
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Namawa (1,032) may also be a first name.

Namawa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Namawa Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Namawa is held by more people in Uganda than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Namawa? popularity and diffusion

The surname Namawa is the 277,054th most commonly held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 5,209,111 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Namawa live; 67 percent live in East Africa and 44 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 249,711th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 1,032 people.

The last name Namawa is most frequently occurring in Uganda, where it is borne by 814 people, or 1 in 47,960. In Uganda it is mostly found in: Manafwa District, where 55 percent live, Mbale District, where 16 percent live and Wakiso District, where 4 percent live. Excluding Uganda this surname is found in 13 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 19 percent live and Kenya, where 9 percent live.

Namawa Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Namawa last name is principally Christian (100%) 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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Namawa
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