Sakwanda Surname

528,890th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 612 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Sakwanda Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sakwanda Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia3731:42,4934,164
DR Congo2261:326,90129,253
Sweden41:2,461,689157,534
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
England11:55,718,059489,080
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Sakwanda (41) may also be a first name.

Sakwanda Last Name Facts

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

Sakwanda has its highest incidence in Zambia. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Sakwanda.

How Common Is The Last Name Sakwanda? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 528,890th most frequently used surname globally It is held by around 1 in 11,907,755 people. The last name Sakwanda is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sakwanda reside; 61 percent reside in Southern Africa and 61 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,590,275th most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 41 people.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is carried by 373 people, or 1 in 42,493. In Zambia Sakwanda is mostly concentrated in: North-Western Province, where 44 percent reside, Lusaka Province, where 28 percent reside and Southern Province, where 19 percent reside. Other than Zambia this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 37 percent reside and Sweden, where 1 percent reside.

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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 Sakwanda
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