Piow Surname

2,020,555th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 86 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malaysia
Highest density in:
Singapore

Piow Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Piow Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malaysia521:567,19727,732
Singapore301:183,5907,666
China21:683,660,78330,601
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622

Piow (82) may also be a first name.

Piow Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Piow Come From? nationality or country of origin

Piow is found most in Malaysia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Piow? popularity and diffusion

The last name Piow is the 2,020,555th most common surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 84,738,906 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Piow reside; 95 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 60 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Piow is also the 1,060,447th most frequently held first name worldwide. It is borne by 82 people.

The last name is most commonly used in Malaysia, where it is carried by 52 people, or 1 in 567,197. In Malaysia Piow is most frequent in: Malacca, where 23 percent live, Perlis, where 23 percent live and Johor, where 13 percent live. Besides Malaysia Piow exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Singapore, where 35 percent live and China, where 2 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pieow892/
Piows891/
Piowe891/
Pegiow801/
Poiiow801/
Piaw75155/
Peow75142/
Piob754/
Piof751/
Pjow751/
Pajow67385/
Payow67353/
Piawe6787/
Pheow6733/
Phiaw6712/
Pijov674/
Piotv673/
Pojow672/
Pițov671/
Pioof671/

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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 Piow
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