Sawea Surname
Approximately 43 people bear this surname
Sawea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Liberia | 11 | 1:400,776 | 20,681 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sawea (39) may also be a first name.
Sawea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sawea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sawea occurs more in Papua New Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Sawea click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sawea? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,979,664th most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 169,477,812 people. Sawea is mostly found in Oceania, where 56 percent of Sawea live; 56 percent live in Oceania Islands and 56 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,637,361st most frequently occurring first name world-wide, held by 39 people.
The surname Sawea is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 24 people, or 1 in 339,738. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily found in: Western, where 54 percent reside and Chimbu, where 46 percent reside. Beside Papua New Guinea Sawea exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 26 percent reside and Indonesia, where 7 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
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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 Sawea
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