Sankwankwa Surname

3,141,416th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 39 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Sankwankwa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sankwankwa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa391:1,389,17274,222

Sankwankwa Last Name Facts

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

Sankwankwa is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sankwankwa? popularity and diffusion

The last name Sankwankwa is the 3,141,416th most frequently occurring surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 186,860,152 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sankwankwa reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.

This surname is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 1,389,172. In South Africa Sankwankwa is most common in: Western Cape, where 44 percent live, Eastern Cape, where 36 percent live and Gauteng, where 18 percent live.

Sankwankwa Last Name Statistics demography

Sankwankwa earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.28% less than the national average, earning R 122,904 per year.

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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 Sankwankwa
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