Kewei Surname
Approximately 197 people bear this surname
Kewei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 78 | 1:266,270 | 25,687 |
| Papua New Guinea | 68 | 1:119,908 | 16,326 |
| China | 19 | 1:71,964,293 | 3,948 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Kewei (2,064) may also be a first name.
Kewei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kewei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kewei occurs most in Cameroon. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kewei? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,198,640th most commonly used surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 36,992,619 people. The surname Kewei occurs mostly in Africa, where 46 percent of Kewei reside; 35 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 35 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 165,948th most common first name worldwide, held by 2,064 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is held by 78 people, or 1 in 266,270. In Cameroon Kewei is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 55 percent reside, Far North Region, where 42 percent reside and North Region, where 1 percent reside. Other than Cameroon Kewei is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 35 percent reside and China, where 10 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
- 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 Kewei
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