Puwa Surname
Approximately 531 people bear this surname
Puwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Indonesia | 124 | 1:1,066,526 | 77,317 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Papua New Guinea | 61 | 1:133,667 | 18,337 |
| Cameroon | 47 | 1:441,895 | 37,035 |
| Nepal | 28 | 1:1,017,177 | 6,083 |
| India | 20 | 1:38,353,269 | 431,471 |
| Philippines | 19 | 1:5,328,328 | 173,877 |
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
Puwa (387) may also be a first name.
Puwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Puwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Puwa (Hindi: पुवा) is held by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Puwa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 588,441st most widely held surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 13,724,192 people. The last name Puwa is mostly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Puwa reside; 27 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 25 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Puwa is also the 440,394th most frequently held first name globally, held by 387 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Malawi, where it is held by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Excluding Malawi this last name occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 23 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 14 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Puwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Puwa in the Hindi language | ||
| पुवा | puva | 50 |
| पूवा | puva | 50 |
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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 Puwa
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