Kuwei Surname
Approximately 192 people bear this surname
Kuwei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 144 | 1:918,397 | 68,422 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
Kuwei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kuwei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kuwei occurs more in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kuwei? popularity and diffusion
Kuwei is the 1,218,745th most commonly held family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 37,955,968 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 90 percent of Kuwei are found; 90 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 90 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.
The last name Kuwei is most commonly held in Indonesia, where it is held by 144 people, or 1 in 918,397. In Indonesia Kuwei is primarily concentrated in: West Papua, where 71 percent live and Papua, where 29 percent live. Beside Indonesia this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent live and Nigeria, where 7 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
- 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 Kuwei
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