Wambuya Surname
Approximately 386 people bear this surname
Wambuya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 373 | 1:104,663 | 10,371 |
| Kenya | 11 | 1:4,198,173 | 41,178 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wambuya (36) may also be a first name.
Wambuya Demographics
Wambuya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Wambuya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wambuya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wambuya occurs more in Uganda more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wambuya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 745,450th most frequent family name on earth, held by around 1 in 18,879,653 people. The surname Wambuya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Wambuya live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 70 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 1,717,090th most frequently used given name world-wide It is held by 36 people.
Wambuya is most frequently occurring in Uganda, where it is carried by 373 people, or 1 in 104,663. In Uganda it is most common in: Manafwa District, where 49 percent reside, Mbale District, where 23 percent reside and Bulambuli District, where 8 percent reside. Not including Uganda it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 3 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 0 percent reside.
Wambuya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Wambuya surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Wambuya
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