Peniat Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Peniat Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Peniat Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Peniat Come From? nationality or country of origin
Peniat is more commonly found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Peniat? popularity and diffusion
The surname Peniat is the 2,746,821st most commonly held last name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 78 percent of Peniat live; 78 percent live in Oceania Islands and 78 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
It is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 209,070. In Papua New Guinea Peniat is mostly concentrated in: Bougainville, where 62 percent reside and East New Britain, where 38 percent reside. Excluding Papua New Guinea Peniat exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 20 percent reside and The United States, 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
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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 Peniat
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