Nyawo Surname

24,699th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 21,873 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Swaziland

Nyawo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nyawo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa18,8911:2,868375
Zimbabwe1,7771:8,6881,044
Swaziland1,0361:1,253157
Nigeria971:1,826,21465,886
England271:2,063,63279,942
Qatar121:196,50026,891
Cameroon51:4,153,814129,697
Malaysia41:7,373,556230,001
Sudan41:9,377,5498,207
Tanzania31:17,647,204107,932
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Northern Ireland21:922,51818,701
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422

Nyawo (48) may also be a first name.

Nyawo Last Name Facts

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

The surname Nyawo occurs most in South Africa. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Nyawo? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 24,699th most commonly used surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 333,175 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyawo reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,448,253rd most prevalent first name worldwide It is held by 48 people.

Nyawo is most frequent in South Africa, where it is held by 18,891 people, or 1 in 2,868. In South Africa it is mostly found in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 86 percent reside, Gauteng, where 6 percent reside and Mpumalanga, where 3 percent reside. Beside South Africa this surname exists in 24 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 8 percent reside and Swaziland, where 5 percent reside.

Nyawo Last Name Statistics demography

Nyawo earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 35.96% less than the national average, earning R 152,184 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 Nyawo
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