Palowa Surname
Approximately 585 people bear this surname
Palowa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 471 | 1:280,784 | 25,264 |
| Philippines | 101 | 1:1,002,359 | 86,102 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Palowa (20) may also be a first name.
Palowa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palowa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Palowa is most common in Indonesia. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Palowa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Palowa is the 546,987th most common family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 12,457,343 people. This last name is primarily found in Asia, where 98 percent of Palowa are found; 98 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 81 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 2,446,817th most prevalent given name throughout the world. It is borne by 20 people.
It is most frequently used in Indonesia, where it is borne by 471 people, or 1 in 280,784. In Indonesia Palowa is most frequent in: Gorontalo, where 92 percent reside, North Sulawesi, where 5 percent reside and Central Sulawesi, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Indonesia this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 17 percent reside and Benin, where 2 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 Palowa
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