Gewana Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Gewana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 30 | 1:271,791 | 36,992 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gewana (20) may also be a first name.
Gewana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gewana Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gewana is carried by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gewana? popularity and diffusion
Gewana is the 3,432,070th most widely held surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. The last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 91 percent of Gewana reside; 91 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 91 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Gewana is also the 2,446,817th most frequent given name on earth, held by 20 people.
The last name Gewana is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 30 people, or 1 in 271,791. In Papua New Guinea Gewana is most numerous in: Bougainville, where 70 percent live and Morobe, where 30 percent live. Other than Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 6 percent live and The United States, where 3 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
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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 Gewana
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