Kwashi Surname
Approximately 864 people bear this surname
Kwashi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 401 | 1:441,753 | 22,667 |
| Zimbabwe | 376 | 1:41,059 | 6,340 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kwashi (223) may also be a first name.
Kwashi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kwashi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kwashi occurs most in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kwashi.
How Common Is The Last Name Kwashi? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 405,451st most commonly held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 8,434,660 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kwashi reside; 48 percent reside in West Africa and 48 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kwashi is also the 603,623rd most commonly used first name worldwide It is held by 223 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 401 people, or 1 in 441,753. In Nigeria Kwashi is mostly found in: Plateau, where 52 percent reside, Bauchi, where 18 percent reside and Benue, where 4 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in Zimbabwe, where 44 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 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 Kwashi
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