Mwange
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mwanɡe/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Mwange is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 160Kfew records
- NANamibia≈1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Mwange is found
(measured from records)Mwange counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Mwange | 6 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Mwange | 15 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Mwange | 8 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 2 | Mwange | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Mwange | 6 |
| NA Namibia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 599K | 2 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mwange?
- In Swahili /mwanɡe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mwange?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Mwange in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mwange. After it come Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mwange?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Mwange in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mwange?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mwangeThe 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, “Mwange”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.