Lawiy Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Lawiy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Lawiy (42) may also be a first name.
Lawiy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lawiy Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lawiy is most common in Nigeria. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lawiy? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,908,606th most frequent last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. Lawiy occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Lawiy reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 88 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Lawiy is also the 1,566,439th most frequent first name in the world It is held by 42 people.
The last name Lawiy is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria Lawiy is most prevalent in: Kano, where 64 percent live, Lagos, where 21 percent live and Jigawa, where 7 percent live. Besides Nigeria Lawiy is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 6 percent live and Cameroon, where 6 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 Lawiy
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