Samikwa Surname
Approximately 942 people bear this surname
Samikwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 915 | 1:18,709 | 2,930 |
| Uganda | 17 | 1:2,296,428 | 70,019 |
| Kenya | 8 | 1:5,772,488 | 50,256 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Samikwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samikwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Samikwa is found most frequently in Malawi. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samikwa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 378,966th most prevalent last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 7,736,248 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Samikwa live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
It is most numerous in Malawi, where it is carried by 915 people, or 1 in 18,709. Aside from Malawi it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 2 percent live and Kenya, where 1 percent live.
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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
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