Pewa Surname
Approximately 1,305 people bear this surname
Pewa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 460 | 1:117,778 | 14,016 |
| DR Congo | 274 | 1:269,633 | 25,289 |
| Papua New Guinea | 208 | 1:39,201 | 4,741 |
| Indonesia | 131 | 1:1,009,536 | 73,900 |
| India | 127 | 1:6,039,885 | 141,381 |
| Zimbabwe | 36 | 1:428,840 | 37,622 |
| Cameroon | 27 | 1:769,225 | 54,005 |
| Brazil | 13 | 1:16,467,256 | 295,032 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Namibia | 3 | 1:803,134 | 15,170 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Pewa (552) may also be a first name.
Pewa Demographics
Average Pewa Salary in
South Africa
R 241,116
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Pewa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pewa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pewa is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Pewa.
How Common Is The Last Name Pewa? popularity and diffusion
Pewa is the 292,829th most frequent surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,584,326 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 62 percent of Pewa live; 38 percent live in Southern Africa and 38 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Pewa is also the 358,282nd most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 552 people.
The surname Pewa is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is borne by 460 people, or 1 in 117,778. In South Africa Pewa is primarily concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 82 percent live, Gauteng, where 15 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 1 percent live. Not including South Africa this last name exists in 22 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 21 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent live.
Pewa Last Name Statistics demography
Pewa earn around the same as the average income. In South Africa they earn 1.46% more than the national average, earning R 241,116 per year.
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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 Pewa
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