Alawe Surname
Approximately 1,787 people bear this surname
Alawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 732 | 1:241,998 | 14,038 |
| DR Congo | 356 | 1:207,527 | 20,581 |
| Kenya | 307 | 1:150,423 | 11,954 |
| Benin | 167 | 1:61,890 | 7,616 |
| Philippines | 144 | 1:703,043 | 71,385 |
| India | 19 | 1:40,371,862 | 445,856 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Bahrain | 9 | 1:149,845 | 5,469 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Jordan | 3 | 1:2,947,479 | 21,051 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Alawe (231) may also be a first name.
Alawe Demographics
Alawe Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Alawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Alawe (Marathi: आळवे) occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Alawe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Alawe is the 227,044th most commonly used last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 4,078,089 people. The last name Alawe occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Alawe live; 51 percent live in West Africa and 51 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 590,311th most common first name at a global level. It is borne by 231 people.
Alawe is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 732 people, or 1 in 241,998. In Nigeria Alawe is primarily concentrated in: Osun, where 29 percent live, Ekiti, where 18 percent live and Lagos, where 17 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria it exists in 26 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 20 percent live and Kenya, where 17 percent live.
Alawe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is predominantly Muslim (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Alawe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alawe in the Marathi language | ||
| आळवे | alave | 66.67 |
| अलावे | alave | 33.33 |
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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
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- 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 Alawe
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