Sapawa Surname

3,141,416th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 39 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Sapawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sapawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea181:452,98457,838
Thailand151:4,709,223352,754
Malaysia61:4,915,704170,578

Sapawa Last Name Facts

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

Sapawa is more frequently found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sapawa? popularity and diffusion

The surname Sapawa is the 3,141,416th most commonly used surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 54 percent of Sapawa reside; 54 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 46 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.

The last name is most frequently occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 452,984. In Papua New Guinea Sapawa is most frequent in: Western, where 100 percent are found. Other than Papua New Guinea it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 38 percent are found and Malaysia, where 15 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 Sapawa
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