Iwele Surname
Approximately 137 people bear this surname
Iwele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Nigeria | 39 | 1:4,542,122 | 122,724 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Iwele (18) may also be a first name.
Iwele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Iwele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Iwele is found most frequently in The DR Congo. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Iwele? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,518,885th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 53,193,766 people. Iwele occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Iwele reside; 66 percent reside in Central Africa and 66 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Iwele is also the 2,608,198th most widespread first name internationally It is held by 18 people.
This surname is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 82 people, or 1 in 900,970. Excluding The DR Congo this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 28 percent reside and The Congo, where 7 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 Iwele
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