Cawas Surname
Approximately 1,025 people bear this surname
Cawas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 1,009 | 1:100,335 | 17,521 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
Cawas (119) may also be a first name.
Cawas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cawas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cawas (Marathi: चावास) has its highest incidence in The Philippines. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cawas? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 354,857th most commonly occurring surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 7,109,801 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Cawas are found; 98 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 98 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 856,040th most common first name on earth, held by 119 people.
Cawas is most commonly held in The Philippines, where it is carried by 1,009 people, or 1 in 100,335. In The Philippines Cawas is primarily concentrated in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 26 percent live, Central Visayas, where 25 percent live and Calabarzon, where 19 percent live. Without taking into account The Philippines this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 0 percent live and Taiwan, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Cawas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cawas in the Marathi language | ||
| चावास | cavasa | - |
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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 Cawas
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