Awei Surname
Approximately 679 people bear this surname
Awei Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
Papua New Guinea | 242 | 1:33,693 | 3,946 |
Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
Israel | 80 | 1:106,970 | 12,128 |
Nigeria | 79 | 1:2,242,313 | 76,227 |
DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
Uganda | 32 | 1:1,219,977 | 48,798 |
Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
China | 7 | 1:195,331,652 | 10,124 |
United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Awei (888) may also be a first name.
Awei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Awei occurs more in Papua New Guinea more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Awei? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 488,458th most widely held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 10,732,763 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 49 percent of Awei are found; 36 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 36 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 272,746th most commonly held first name worldwide. It is borne by 888 people.
Awei is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 242 people, or 1 in 33,693. In Papua New Guinea Awei is most common in: Southern Highlands, where 34 percent live, West Sepik, where 34 percent live and West New Britain, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea it exists in 18 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 27 percent live and Israel, where 12 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Awei
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