Orowai Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Orowai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
Orowai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orowai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Orowai is most common in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Orowai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,034,050th most widely held family name globally, borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 100 percent of Orowai live; 100 percent live in Oceania Islands and 100 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
Orowai is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 23 people, or 1 in 354,509. In Papua New Guinea Orowai is most frequent in: West Sepik, where 70 percent live, Bougainville, where 26 percent live and Northern, where 4 percent live. Beside Papua New Guinea it exists in one country. It is also common in Indonesia, where 4 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 Orowai
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