Sanawai Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Sanawai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Sanawai (123) may also be a first name.
Sanawai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanawai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sanawai is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanawai? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,882,373rd most frequently used family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 280,290,228 people. The surname Sanawai is mostly found in Africa, where 54 percent of Sanawai live; 54 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Chadic Africa. Sanawai is also the 840,349th most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 123 people.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 1,483,505. In Cameroon Sanawai is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 93 percent reside and North Region, where 7 percent reside. Barring Cameroon this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 42 percent reside and Malaysia, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Sanawai
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