Elwai Surname
Approximately 61 people bear this surname
Elwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Elwai (36) may also be a first name.
Elwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Elwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Elwai is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Elwai.
How Common Is The Last Name Elwai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,460,878th most widely held surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 119,467,966 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 89 percent of Elwai live; 89 percent live in Oceania Islands and 89 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,717,090th most widely held first name worldwide, held by 36 people.
The surname Elwai is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 150,995. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly concentrated in: Chimbu, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 7 percent reside and Egypt, where 2 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
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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 Elwai
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