Ngawai Surname
Approximately 79 people bear this surname
Ngawai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 52 | 1:156,802 | 21,647 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
Ngawai (180) may also be a first name.
Ngawai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ngawai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ngawai is more frequently found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ngawai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ngawai is the 2,121,169th most commonly used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 92,247,417 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 67 percent of Ngawai are found; 66 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 66 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Ngawai is also the 679,247th most commonly occurring forename internationally It is held by 180 people.
The surname Ngawai is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 52 people, or 1 in 156,802. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: Morobe, where 98 percent are found and Hela, where 2 percent are found. Besides Papua New Guinea Ngawai is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 16 percent are found and Malaysia, where 9 percent are found.
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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 Ngawai
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