Wamwangi Surname
Approximately 106 people bear this surname
Wamwangi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 101 | 1:457,227 | 24,042 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wamwangi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wamwangi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wamwangi occurs most in Kenya. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wamwangi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,785,358th most commonly used last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 68,750,433 people. The last name Wamwangi is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Wamwangi are found; 95 percent are found in East Africa and 95 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
This surname is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is carried by 101 people, or 1 in 457,227. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Nyeri County, where 95 percent reside, Nairobi County, where 4 percent reside and Muranga County, where 1 percent reside. Other than Kenya Wamwangi occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 3 percent reside and Australia, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Wamwangi
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