Dowai Surname
Approximately 83 people bear this surname
Dowai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Mariana Islands | 39 | 1:1,399 | 186 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Indonesia | 16 | 1:8,265,575 | 327,276 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Dowai (86) may also be a first name.
Dowai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dowai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dowai (Tibetan: སྒྲོ་བའི་) has its highest incidence in Northern Mariana Islands. It can be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Dowai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dowai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,061,309th most commonly held last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 87,801,758 people. Dowai occurs mostly in Oceania, where 88 percent of Dowai live; 88 percent live in Oceania Islands and 48 percent live in Chamorro Oceania. It is also the 1,032,266th most commonly held first name world-wide. It is borne by 86 people.
The surname is most common in Northern Mariana Islands, where it is held by 39 people, or 1 in 1,399. Besides Northern Mariana Islands it occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 20 percent live and Indonesia, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dowai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dowai in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒྲོ་བའི་ | drowé | - |
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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 Dowai
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