Meawa Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Meawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 52 | 1:156,802 | 21,647 |
| Indonesia | 28 | 1:4,723,186 | 228,527 |
Meawa (38) may also be a first name.
Meawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meawa is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meawa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,106,139th most commonly occurring family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 91,094,324 people. The surname Meawa is mostly found in Oceania, where 65 percent of Meawa reside; 65 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 65 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Meawa is also the 1,662,754th most frequently occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 38 people.
Meawa is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 52 people, or 1 in 156,802. In Papua New Guinea Meawa is mostly concentrated in: Southern Highlands, where 85 percent live, Jiwaka, where 13 percent live and National Capital District, where 2 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea this surname is found in one country. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 35 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 Meawa
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