Namawa Surname
Approximately 1,399 people bear this surname
Namawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 814 | 1:47,960 | 5,880 |
| Zambia | 262 | 1:60,496 | 5,474 |
| Kenya | 129 | 1:357,984 | 20,934 |
| Ivory Coast | 123 | 1:187,571 | 8,219 |
| Niger | 29 | 1:661,794 | 16,082 |
| Zimbabwe | 23 | 1:671,228 | 49,171 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Namawa (1,032) may also be a first name.
Namawa Demographics
Namawa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Namawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Namawa is most common in Uganda. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Namawa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Namawa is the 277,054th most widely held family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 5,209,111 people. The surname Namawa is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Namawa reside; 67 percent reside in East Africa and 44 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Namawa is also the 249,711th most frequently used forename in the world, borne by 1,032 people.
It is most prevalent in Uganda, where it is borne by 814 people, or 1 in 47,960. In Uganda it is primarily concentrated in: Manafwa District, where 55 percent reside, Mbale District, where 16 percent reside and Wakiso District, where 4 percent reside. Aside from Uganda this surname occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 19 percent reside and Kenya, where 9 percent reside.
Namawa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is predominantly 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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