Samwili Surname
Approximately 164 people bear this surname
Samwili Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 157 | 1:109,039 | 12,664 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Samwili (273) may also be a first name.
Samwili Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samwili Come From? nationality or country of origin
Samwili has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Samwili click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samwili? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,353,468th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 44,436,256 people. The surname Samwili is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Samwili are found; 96 percent are found in Southern Africa and 96 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Samwili is also the 537,992nd most widely held first name at a global level, borne by 273 people.
It is most common in Malawi, where it is held by 157 people, or 1 in 109,039. Excluding Malawi this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 2 percent reside and Uganda, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Samwili
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