Nawei Surname
Approximately 92 people bear this surname
Nawei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 27 | 1:6,560,843 | 154,927 |
| Burkina Faso | 24 | 1:764,671 | 8,666 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nawei (114) may also be a first name.
Nawei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nawei Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nawei is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nawei click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nawei? popularity and diffusion
Nawei is the 1,943,350th most frequently used last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 79,212,456 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Nawei reside; 55 percent reside in West Africa and 55 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nawei is also the 877,214th most frequently occurring given name on earth, held by 114 people.
The last name Nawei is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 27 people, or 1 in 6,560,843. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Delta, where 78 percent live, Rivers, where 11 percent live and Lagos, where 7 percent live. Besides Nigeria this surname exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 26 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 26 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 Nawei
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