Awiri Surname
Approximately 143 people bear this surname
Awiri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 113 | 1:1,567,635 | 58,980 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Awiri (38) may also be a first name.
Awiri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awiri Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Awiri is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Awiri click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awiri? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,478,479th most widespread family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 50,961,860 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Awiri live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,662,754th most commonly used first name at a global level It is held by 38 people.
The surname Awiri is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 113 people, or 1 in 1,567,635. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Lagos, where 23 percent live, Edo, where 19 percent live and Cross River, where 19 percent live. Beside Nigeria this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 14 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 3 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 Awiri
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