Rwane Surname

3,185,033rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 38 people bear this surname

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

Rwane Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Rwane Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa321:1,693,05382,821
Kenya41:11,544,97562,419
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Rwane Last Name Facts

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

The surname Rwane is found most frequently in South Africa. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Rwane.

How Common Is The Last Name Rwane? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,185,033rd most commonly held family name on earth, held by around 1 in 191,777,524 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Rwane are found; 84 percent are found in Southern Africa and 84 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most commonly occurring in South Africa, where it is carried by 32 people, or 1 in 1,693,053. In South Africa Rwane is most prevalent in: Eastern Cape, where 53 percent live and Western Cape, where 47 percent live. Besides South Africa this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 11 percent live and Brazil, where 3 percent live.

Rwane Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Rwane earn somewhat more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 9.5% more than the national average, earning R 260,220 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

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Hrwine730/
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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 Rwane
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