Rwazo Surname
Approximately 279 people bear this surname
Rwazo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 276 | 1:191,817 | 16,484 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Rwazo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rwazo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Rwazo is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Rwazo click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Rwazo? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 940,398th most widely held last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 26,120,236 people. Rwazo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Rwazo live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 99 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is carried by 276 people, or 1 in 191,817. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Kagera Region, where 94 percent are found, Arusha Region, where 3 percent are found and Kilimanjaro Region, where 0 percent are found. Excluding Tanzania this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 0 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 Rwazo
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