Mewase Surname
Approximately 234 people bear this surname
Mewase Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 231 | 1:766,852 | 34,601 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mewase (12) may also be a first name.
Mewase Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mewase Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mewase is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Mewase click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mewase? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,064,392nd most widely held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 31,143,359 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Mewase live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mewase is also the 3,306,491st most widespread first name worldwide, borne by 12 people.
The last name Mewase is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 231 people, or 1 in 766,852. In Nigeria Mewase is most numerous in: Ekiti, where 82 percent live, Ondo, where 11 percent live and Lagos, where 4 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent live and The Ivory Coast, 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 Mewase
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