Kavuma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑvumɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kavuma is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- UGUganda
- GBUnited Kingdom
- ZASouth Africa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paulo Kavumab. 1901UGKavuma, Paulo Neil (1901–1989), administrator and first minister of Buganda
- Steven Kavumab. 1947UGUgandan judge
- Catherine Samali Kavumab. 1960UGUgandan writer
- Kavuma Samuelb. 1960UGUgandan politician
- Ali Kavumab. 1967Ugandan weightlifter
- Joyce Kavumab. 1974UGUgandan lawyer and judge
- Habib Kavumab. 1991UGUgandan footballer
- Ryan Kavuma-McQueenb. 2009GBEnglish footballer (born 2009)
- Ruth KavumaUGFirst black & former headteacher of Gayaza High School & former Member of Parliament for Kalangala District, Deputy chairperson at NIRA
- Grace KavumaUGBusinessman and accountant in Uganda
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 9 | #4 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| UG Uganda | Parliament of Uganda MP Database — 11th Parliament sitting members | 2026 | 1 | #216 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kavuma?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑvumɑ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Kavuma have the most bearers?
- Kavuma is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kavumaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kavuma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.