Awanai Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Awanai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Awanai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awanai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Awanai is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Awanai.
How Common Is The Last Name Awanai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Awanai is the 3,882,373rd most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 280,290,228 people. The surname Awanai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 73 percent of Awanai are found; 69 percent are found in West Africa and 65 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 10,420,162. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Plateau, where 82 percent reside and Nasarawa, where 18 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 27 percent reside and Niger, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Awanai
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