Owake Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Owake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
Owake (56) may also be a first name.
Owake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Owake is found most in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Owake? popularity and diffusion
Owake is the 3,017,195th most frequently used last name globally It is held by around 1 in 173,512,998 people. This surname is mostly found in Oceania, where 93 percent of Owake live; 93 percent live in Oceania Islands and 93 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Owake is also the 1,321,957th most commonly occurring first name at a global level. It is borne by 56 people.
This last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 209,070. In Papua New Guinea Owake is most frequent in: Eastern Highlands, where 62 percent live, West Sepik, where 36 percent live and Madang, where 3 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea this surname is found in one country. It is also found in Nigeria, where 7 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 Owake
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