Awake Surname
Approximately 1,775 people bear this surname
Awake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,610 | 1:60,588 | 6,165 |
| Papua New Guinea | 50 | 1:163,074 | 22,562 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Nigeria | 33 | 1:5,367,962 | 136,856 |
| Niger | 24 | 1:799,667 | 18,510 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Awake (153) may also be a first name.
Awake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Awake (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻭﺍﻙ, Marathi: आवाके) is held by more people in Ethiopia than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awake? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 228,343rd most widely held family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 4,105,660 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Awake reside; 91 percent reside in East Africa and 91 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Awake is also the 743,570th most widespread first name on earth, held by 153 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 1,610 people, or 1 in 60,588. Without taking into account Ethiopia this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent live and The DR Congo, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Awake Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Awake in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻭﺍﻙ | awak | - |
| Awake in the Marathi language | ||
| आवाके | avake | 50 |
| आवके | avake | 50 |
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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 Awake
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