Samwali Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Samwali Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 14 | 1:1,132,137 | 30,603 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Samwali Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samwali Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Samwali is more frequently found in Zambia than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samwali? popularity and diffusion
The surname Samwali is the 4,532,898th most commonly used last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Samwali live; 95 percent live in Southern Africa and 95 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
Samwali is most frequently occurring in Zambia, where it is borne by 14 people, or 1 in 1,132,137. In Zambia Samwali is most numerous in: Western Province, where 64 percent are found and Southern Province, where 29 percent are found. Aside from Zambia this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Malawi, where 21 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 5 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 Samwali
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