Hwere Surname
Approximately 943 people bear this surname
Hwere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 863 | 1:205,264 | 12,258 |
| Zimbabwe | 74 | 1:208,625 | 23,867 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hwere (136) may also be a first name.
Hwere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hwere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hwere is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Hwere.
How Common Is The Last Name Hwere? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hwere is the 378,680th most commonly occurring surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 7,728,044 people. The surname Hwere occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Hwere reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 794,286th most widespread first name globally, held by 136 people.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 863 people, or 1 in 205,264. In Nigeria Hwere is mostly concentrated in: Plateau, where 97 percent are found, Kaduna, where 2 percent are found and Lagos, where 0 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria Hwere occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 8 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Hwere
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