Naweya Surname
Approximately 401 people bear this surname
Naweya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Papua New Guinea | 86 | 1:94,811 | 12,690 |
| Uganda | 77 | 1:507,004 | 28,868 |
| Namibia | 28 | 1:86,050 | 7,998 |
| Cameroon | 20 | 1:1,038,453 | 65,513 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
Naweya (196) may also be a first name.
Naweya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Naweya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Naweya is more frequently found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Naweya.
How Common Is The Last Name Naweya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 725,073rd most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 18,173,431 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 79 percent of Naweya live; 53 percent live in Southern Africa and 53 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Naweya is also the 648,004th most numerous first name at a global level. It is borne by 196 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Malawi, where it is carried by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Without taking into account Malawi this surname occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 21 percent reside and Uganda, where 19 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
- 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 Naweya
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