Songwe Surname
Approximately 8,690 people bear this surname
Songwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 4,579 | 1:3,461 | 434 |
| DR Congo | 2,257 | 1:32,734 | 4,066 |
| Malawi | 1,281 | 1:13,364 | 2,088 |
| Tanzania | 247 | 1:214,339 | 17,954 |
| Zimbabwe | 209 | 1:73,867 | 10,930 |
| Cameroon | 69 | 1:301,001 | 28,076 |
| Botswana | 22 | 1:99,406 | 15,343 |
| United States | 13 | 1:27,881,456 | 736,413 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
Songwe (511) may also be a first name.
Songwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Songwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Songwe is found most frequently in Zambia. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Songwe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 58,228th most commonly occurring surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 838,613 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Songwe reside; 70 percent reside in Southern Africa and 70 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 374,142nd most commonly occurring first name internationally. It is borne by 511 people.
This last name is most widely held in Zambia, where it is held by 4,579 people, or 1 in 3,461. In Zambia Songwe is most frequent in: Luapula Province, where 42 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 21 percent are found and Northern Province, where 19 percent are found. Apart from Zambia this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 26 percent are found and Malawi, where 15 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
- 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 Songwe
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