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 surname Kuwei is found most in Indonesia. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kuwei click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kuwei? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kuwei is the 1,218,745th most prevalent surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 37,955,968 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 90 percent of Kuwei reside; 90 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 90 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
The surname Kuwei is most numerous in Indonesia, where it is borne by 144 people, or 1 in 918,397. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: West Papua, where 71 percent are found and Papua, where 29 percent are found. Outside of Indonesia this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent are found and Nigeria, where 7 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
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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 Kuwei
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