Gwauna Surname
Approximately 30 people bear this surname
Gwauna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 26 | 1:6,813,183 | 158,601 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Gwauna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gwauna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gwauna is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gwauna? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,602,217th most frequent last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 242,918,197 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Gwauna live; 87 percent live in West Africa and 87 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Gwauna is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 26 people, or 1 in 6,813,183. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Niger, where 35 percent live, Federal Capital Territory, where 27 percent live and Sokoto, where 19 percent live. Besides Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent live and Zimbabwe, 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 Gwauna
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