Mawua Surname
Approximately 1,056 people bear this surname
Mawua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 1,020 | 1:38,274 | 4,927 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Mawua (15) may also be a first name.
Mawua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mawua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mawua occurs most in Uganda. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Mawua.
How Common Is The Last Name Mawua? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mawua is the 346,411th most prevalent last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,901,085 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mawua are found; 97 percent are found in East Africa and 81 percent are found in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most numerous first name in the world, held by 15 people.
This surname is most numerous in Uganda, where it is carried by 1,020 people, or 1 in 38,274. In Uganda it is most frequent in: Arua District, where 67 percent are found, Masindi District, where 10 percent are found and Maracha District, where 10 percent are found. Apart from Uganda Mawua exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 3 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 0 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
- 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 Mawua
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