Silutongwe Surname

618,896th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 497 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Silutongwe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Silutongwe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia4821:32,8843,349
Tanzania101:5,294,16157,086
England21:27,859,030389,889
Lesotho21:1,016,27921,693
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Silutongwe Last Name Facts

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

The last name Silutongwe has its highest incidence in Zambia. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Silutongwe? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 618,896th most commonly occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 14,663,070 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Silutongwe live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most frequent in Zambia, where it is carried by 482 people, or 1 in 32,884. In Zambia it is primarily concentrated in: Northern Province, where 69 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 15 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 11 percent live. Beside Zambia Silutongwe occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 2 percent live and England, where 0 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 Silutongwe
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