Nalau Surname
Approximately 672 people bear this surname
Nalau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 337 | 1:24,195 | 2,659 |
| Vanuatu | 275 | 1:957 | 231 |
| Indonesia | 33 | 1:4,007,551 | 204,828 |
| Malaysia | 22 | 1:1,340,647 | 57,034 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nalau (116) may also be a first name.
Nalau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nalau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nalau is found in Papua New Guinea more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nalau? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nalau is the 492,243rd most common surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 10,844,562 people. This surname is primarily found in Oceania, where 91 percent of Nalau reside; 91 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 50 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 868,627th most prevalent first name on earth. It is borne by 116 people.
This surname is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 337 people, or 1 in 24,195. In Papua New Guinea Nalau is mostly concentrated in: Morobe, where 48 percent reside, Enga, where 12 percent reside and West New Britain, where 11 percent reside. Not including Papua New Guinea this surname is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Vanuatu, where 41 percent reside and Indonesia, where 5 percent reside.
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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 Nalau
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