Korowai Surname
Approximately 22 people bear this surname
Korowai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon Islands | 12 | 1:48,336 | 9,616 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
Korowai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Korowai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Korowai occurs most in The Solomon Islands. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Korowai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Korowai is the 4,206,983rd most numerous family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 331,252,087 people. Korowai is predominantly found in Oceania, where 100 percent of Korowai are found; 95 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 55 percent are found in Solomonic Oceania.
Korowai is most frequently used in The Solomon Islands, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 48,336. In The Solomon Islands Korowai is most numerous in: Malaita Province, where 92 percent live and Guadalcanal Province, where 8 percent live. Other than The Solomon Islands Korowai occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 36 percent live and Indonesia, where 5 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 Korowai
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