Nyewe Surname

806,178th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 347 people bear this surname

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

Nyewe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nyewe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa3131:173,09219,160
Zimbabwe171:908,13259,260
Nigeria141:12,653,054227,444
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Nyewe (31) may also be a first name.

Nyewe Last Name Facts

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

The last name Nyewe is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Nyewe.

How Common Is The Last Name Nyewe? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 806,178th most commonly held family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 21,001,573 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyewe live; 95 percent live in Southern Africa and 95 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,874,099th most prevalent first name on earth, borne by 31 people.

It is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is held by 313 people, or 1 in 173,092. In South Africa Nyewe is most common in: Eastern Cape, where 51 percent live, Western Cape, where 25 percent live and Gauteng, where 15 percent live. Barring South Africa it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent live and Nigeria, where 4 percent live.

Nyewe Last Name Statistics demography

Nyewe earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 19.22% less than the national average, earning R 191,964 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 Nyewe
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