Sawei Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Sawei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Sawei (49) may also be a first name.
Sawei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sawei Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sawei is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sawei? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,427,875th most widely held family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 45 percent of Sawei reside; 45 percent reside in West Africa and 45 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sawei is also the 1,430,306th most common first name throughout the world. It is borne by 49 people.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 8 people, or 1 in 22,142,845. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 88 percent are found and Rivers, where 13 percent are found. Besides Nigeria it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 40 percent are found and Malaysia, where 10 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
- 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 Sawei
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