Piaw Surname
Approximately 155 people bear this surname
Piaw Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 48 | 1:614,463 | 29,648 |
| Taiwan | 45 | 1:520,994 | 3,910 |
| Indonesia | 38 | 1:3,480,242 | 186,493 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Brunei | 5 | 1:83,746 | 1,811 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Piaw (59) may also be a first name.
Piaw Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Piaw Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Piaw occurs more in Malaysia more than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Piaw? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,403,590th most commonly held last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 47,016,425 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Piaw are found; 69 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 59 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,282,666th most frequently used first name globally, borne by 59 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Malaysia, where it is borne by 48 people, or 1 in 614,463. In Malaysia Piaw is most common in: Sarawak, where 71 percent live, Johor, where 6 percent live and Selangor, where 6 percent live. Aside from Malaysia Piaw is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Taiwan, where 29 percent live and Indonesia, where 25 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
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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 Piaw
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