Njowe Surname
Approximately 1,521 people bear this surname
Njowe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 915 | 1:18,709 | 2,930 |
| Cameroon | 445 | 1:46,672 | 6,131 |
| Zimbabwe | 146 | 1:105,741 | 14,710 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Njowe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Njowe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Njowe is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Njowe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 258,654th most prevalent last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 4,791,286 people. The last name Njowe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Njowe are found; 70 percent are found in Southern Africa and 70 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
The last name is most numerous in Malawi, where it is borne by 915 people, or 1 in 18,709. Outside of Malawi this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 29 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 10 percent are found.
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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 Njowe
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