Nqwenya Surname

3,798,600th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 27 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Nqwenya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nqwenya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa241:2,257,40496,432
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260

Nqwenya Last Name Facts

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

The last name Nqwenya is more frequently found in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Nqwenya.

How Common Is The Last Name Nqwenya? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,798,600th most common family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Nqwenya live; 93 percent live in Southern Africa and 93 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most frequent in South Africa, where it is borne by 24 people, or 1 in 2,257,404. In South Africa Nqwenya is most frequent in: Gauteng, where 46 percent are found, Mpumalanga, where 21 percent are found and KwaZulu-Natal, where 17 percent are found. Aside from South Africa it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 4 percent are found and The United States, where 4 percent are found.

Nqwenya Last Name Statistics demography

Nqwenya earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 49.82% less than the national average, earning R 119,256 per year.

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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 Nqwenya
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