Wesamba Surname

694,796th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 425 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Wesamba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wesamba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya3911:118,1079,926
Uganda331:1,183,00847,935
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Wesamba (87) may also be a first name.

Wesamba Last Name Facts

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

The last name Wesamba is found most in Kenya. It may appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wesamba? popularity and diffusion

The last name Wesamba is the 694,796th most widely held surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 17,147,167 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Wesamba are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 99 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,024,927th most frequently occurring first name at a global level It is held by 87 people.

The last name Wesamba is most frequently used in Kenya, where it is held by 391 people, or 1 in 118,107. In Kenya Wesamba is mostly found in: Kakamega County, where 63 percent are found, Bungoma County, where 36 percent are found and Kisumu County, where 0 percent are found. Apart from Kenya this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 8 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.

Wesamba Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is predominantly 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 Wesamba
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