Kowei Surname
Approximately 498 people bear this surname
Kowei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 468 | 1:378,510 | 20,133 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 1:388,272 | 50,829 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Kowei (35) may also be a first name.
Kowei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kowei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kowei is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kowei? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kowei is the 617,991st most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 14,633,626 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Kowei are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,744,716th most widely held forename worldwide It is held by 35 people.
It is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 468 people, or 1 in 378,510. In Nigeria Kowei is most prevalent in: Ondo, where 61 percent are found, Bayelsa, where 17 percent are found and Lagos, where 9 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 4 percent are found and Indonesia, where 1 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 Kowei
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