Desawa Surname
Approximately 1,269 people bear this surname
Desawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1,259 | 1:101,544 | 6,104 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Desawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Desawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Desawa is held by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Desawa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 299,736th most commonly held last name on earth, held by around 1 in 5,742,747 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Desawa live; 99 percent live in East Asia and 99 percent live in Nippono-Asia.
It is most widely held in Japan, where it is held by 1,259 people, or 1 in 101,544. In Japan Desawa is mostly found in: Ibaraki Prefecture, where 27 percent live, Kanagawa Prefecture, where 21 percent live and Nagano Prefecture, where 19 percent live. Excluding Japan this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live and The Philippines, where 0 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 Desawa
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