Malaweera Surname
Approximately 526 people bear this surname
Malaweera Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 512 | 1:40,642 | 4,863 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Malaweera Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Malaweera Come From? nationality or country of origin
Malaweera is held by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Malaweera? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 592,650th most widely held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 13,854,650 people. The last name Malaweera occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Malaweera are found; 97 percent are found in South Asia and 97 percent are found in Indo-South Asia.
The surname is most prevalent in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 512 people, or 1 in 40,642. Other than Sri Lanka this surname exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent live and South Korea, where 0 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 Malaweera
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