Jawe Surname
Approximately 520 people bear this surname
Jawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 177 | 1:306,089 | 29,333 |
| Indonesia | 85 | 1:1,555,873 | 103,724 |
| Botswana | 39 | 1:56,075 | 10,323 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| Nigeria | 31 | 1:5,714,283 | 142,531 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Zimbabwe | 23 | 1:671,228 | 49,171 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| Mauritania | 22 | 1:186,130 | 9,575 |
| Philippines | 18 | 1:5,624,346 | 177,167 |
| Malaysia | 13 | 1:2,268,787 | 89,138 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
The alternate forms: Jawé (1) are calculated separately.
Jawe (290) may also be a first name.
Jawe Demographics
Average Jawe Salary in
United States
$44,917 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Jawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jawe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺟﺎﻭ) is found in South Africa more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Jawé. For other potential spellings of Jawe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Jawe? popularity and diffusion
Jawe is the 598,302nd most frequent family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 14,014,511 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 68 percent of Jawe are found; 46 percent are found in Southern Africa and 46 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 518,802nd most frequently held first name internationally It is held by 290 people.
The surname Jawe is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is held by 177 people, or 1 in 306,089. In South Africa it is primarily found in: Eastern Cape, where 51 percent are found, Western Cape, where 19 percent are found and North West, where 15 percent are found. Not including South Africa this last name occurs in 19 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 16 percent are found and Botswana, where 8 percent are found.
Jawe Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Jawe earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 42.2% less than the national average, earning R 137,364 per year and in United States they earn 4.1% more than the national average, earning $44,917 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jawe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jawe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺟﺎﻭ | jaw | 50 |
| ﺟﺎﻭﻭ | jaww | 33.33 |
| ﺟﻮ | jw | 16.67 |
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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 Jawe
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