Awako Surname
Approximately 459 people bear this surname
Awako Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Tanzania | 86 | 1:615,600 | 37,853 |
| Papua New Guinea | 33 | 1:247,082 | 33,879 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Uganda | 24 | 1:1,626,637 | 57,482 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Awako (17) may also be a first name.
Awako Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awako Come From? nationality or country of origin
Awako is carried by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awako? popularity and diffusion
The surname Awako is the 656,126th most frequently used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 15,877,006 people. The surname Awako occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Awako reside; 62 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most widely held first name globally It is held by 17 people.
Awako is most common in Ghana, where it is carried by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Barring Ghana Awako is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 19 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found.
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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 Awako
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