Dowee Surname
Approximately 475 people bear this surname
Dowee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 471 | 1:9,360 | 1,051 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
The alternate forms: Dowée (1) are calculated separately.
Dowee (18) may also be a first name.
Dowee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dowee Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dowee is borne by more people in Liberia than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Dowée. For other possible spellings of Dowee click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dowee? popularity and diffusion
The surname Dowee is the 640,141st most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 15,342,202 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Dowee reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. Dowee is also the 2,608,198th most widely held given name globally. It is borne by 18 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Liberia, where it is carried by 471 people, or 1 in 9,360. In Liberia Dowee is most frequent in: Bong County, where 44 percent reside, Montserrado County, where 34 percent reside and Bomi County, where 7 percent reside. Barring Liberia Dowee exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Dowee
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