Awai Surname
Approximately 3,388 people bear this surname
Awai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 991 | 1:178,752 | 11,001 |
| Papua New Guinea | 710 | 1:11,484 | 1,024 |
| United States | 421 | 1:860,948 | 65,474 |
| Japan | 296 | 1:431,906 | 13,406 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 207 | 1:6,589 | 994 |
| Malaysia | 172 | 1:171,478 | 10,439 |
| Uganda | 168 | 1:232,377 | 17,736 |
| Indonesia | 103 | 1:1,283,973 | 89,572 |
| Pakistan | 73 | 1:2,447,177 | 21,607 |
| Niger | 61 | 1:314,623 | 9,328 |
| Ivory Coast | 40 | 1:576,781 | 17,373 |
| South Sudan | 25 | 1:456,603 | 797 |
| Canada | 22 | 1:1,674,800 | 111,190 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Iran | 9 | 1:8,531,392 | 160,212 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
Awai (1,152) may also be a first name.
Awai Demographics
Average Awai Salary in
United States
$53,551 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Awai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Awai (Bengali: আওয়াই, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻭﺍ, Hindi: ावाइ) occurs most in Nigeria. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Awai.
How Common Is The Last Name Awai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Awai is the 133,113th most numerous surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 2,150,988 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 38 percent of Awai live; 32 percent live in West Africa and 30 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 234,402nd most commonly held first name globally. It is borne by 1,152 people.
The last name Awai is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 991 people, or 1 in 178,752. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Akwa Ibom, where 46 percent live, Taraba, where 13 percent live and Kaduna, where 7 percent live. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 42 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 21 percent live and The United States, where 12 percent live.
Awai Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Awai are 25.62% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 78.85% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Awai earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 24.11% more than the national average, earning $53,551 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.92% more than the national average, earning $52,623 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Awai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Awai in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻭﺍ | awa | - |
| Awai in the Hindi language | ||
| ावाइ | ava'i | - |
| Awai in the Bengali language | ||
| আওয়াই | a'oya'i | 66.67 |
| আওই | a'o'i | 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 Awai
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