Namwai Surname
Approximately 1,312 people bear this surname
Namwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 1,079 | 1:14,689 | 1,678 |
| Thailand | 126 | 1:560,622 | 95,829 |
| Uganda | 105 | 1:371,803 | 23,930 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Namwai (66) may also be a first name.
Namwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Namwai is most common in Zambia. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Namwai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Namwai is the 291,587th most commonly used surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 5,554,532 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 90 percent of Namwai are found; 82 percent are found in Southern Africa and 82 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,201,840th most frequent first name worldwide It is held by 66 people.
Namwai is most widespread in Zambia, where it is carried by 1,079 people, or 1 in 14,689. In Zambia it is primarily concentrated in: Muchinga Province, where 78 percent live, Copperbelt Province, where 12 percent live and Lusaka Province, where 9 percent live. Not including Zambia this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 10 percent live and Uganda, where 8 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 Namwai
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