Marewa Surname
Approximately 815 people bear this surname
Marewa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 482 | 1:274,376 | 24,745 |
| Zimbabwe | 127 | 1:121,561 | 16,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96 | 1:84,935 | 11,249 |
| Botswana | 66 | 1:33,135 | 6,513 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Kenya | 11 | 1:4,198,173 | 41,178 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1:1,509,441 | 47,971 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Marewa (124) may also be a first name.
Marewa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Marewa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Marewa (Tibetan: མ་རི་ཝ་) is found in Indonesia more than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Marewa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Marewa is the 424,566th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 8,941,774 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 47 percent of Marewa are found; 46 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 46 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 836,439th most prevalent given name in the world. It is borne by 124 people.
The surname Marewa is most frequently held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 482 people, or 1 in 274,376. In Indonesia Marewa is mostly found in: South Sulawesi, where 53 percent are found, Papua, where 20 percent are found and Southeast Sulawesi, where 10 percent are found. Besides Indonesia this surname occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 16 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Marewa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Marewa in the Tibetan language | ||
| མ་རི་ཝ་ | mariwa | - |
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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 Marewa
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