Shingwe Surname
Approximately 280 people bear this surname
Shingwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 178 | 1:415,054 | 34,837 |
| Zambia | 86 | 1:184,301 | 12,428 |
| India | 14 | 1:54,790,384 | 527,769 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
Shingwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shingwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Shingwe occurs in The DR Congo more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Shingwe? popularity and diffusion
It is the 937,786th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 26,026,950 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Shingwe reside; 64 percent reside in Central Africa and 64 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 178 people, or 1 in 415,054. Without taking into account The DR Congo this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Zambia, where 31 percent live and India, where 5 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
- 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 Shingwe
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