Saiwa Surname
Approximately 1,794 people bear this surname
Saiwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 1,438 | 1:11,905 | 1,842 |
| Papua New Guinea | 125 | 1:65,230 | 8,500 |
| Tanzania | 95 | 1:557,280 | 35,395 |
| Thailand | 56 | 1:1,261,399 | 181,528 |
| Niger | 48 | 1:399,834 | 11,128 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 1:3,859,560 | 114,807 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Saiwa (325) may also be a first name.
Saiwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Saiwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Saiwa is found most frequently in Malawi. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Saiwa? popularity and diffusion
Saiwa is the 226,326th most common surname on earth, held by around 1 in 4,062,177 people. The last name Saiwa occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Saiwa reside; 80 percent reside in Southern Africa and 80 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Saiwa is also the 486,495th most frequent given name world-wide, held by 325 people.
The last name Saiwa is most numerous in Malawi, where it is borne by 1,438 people, or 1 in 11,905. Excluding Malawi Saiwa occurs in 18 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found and Tanzania, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Saiwa
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