Wangabanya Surname
Approximately 202 people bear this surname
Wangabanya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 127 | 1:124,803 | 9,426 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
Wangabanya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangabanya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wangabanya occurs most in Zambia. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangabanya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wangabanya is the 1,177,228th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 36,076,960 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Wangabanya live; 63 percent live in Southern Africa and 63 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
Wangabanya is most widely held in Zambia, where it is carried by 127 people, or 1 in 124,803. In Zambia it is most numerous in: Copperbelt Province, where 53 percent reside, North-Western Province, where 29 percent reside and Southern Province, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Zambia this surname exists in one country. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 37 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
- 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 Wangabanya
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