Lamatau Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Lamatau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Lamatau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lamatau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lamatau is carried by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Lamatau.
How Common Is The Last Name Lamatau? popularity and diffusion
The surname Lamatau is the 6,063,924th most commonly used surname globally It is held by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. The surname Lamatau is predominantly found in Oceania, where 100 percent of Lamatau are found; 90 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 90 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.
This surname is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 9 people, or 1 in 905,969. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: New Ireland, where 100 percent live. Beside Papua New Guinea it exists in one country. It is also common in Australia, where 10 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 Lamatau
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