Shawai Surname
Approximately 801 people bear this surname
Shawai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 680 | 1:260,504 | 14,953 |
| Iran | 70 | 1:1,096,893 | 49,021 |
| South Africa | 21 | 1:2,579,891 | 103,459 |
| Afghanistan | 9 | 1:3,572,576 | 20,130 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Shawai (224) may also be a first name.
Shawai Demographics
Average Shawai Salary in
South Africa
R 121,992
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Shawai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shawai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shawai is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shawai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 430,251st most frequent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 9,098,060 people. The surname Shawai is predominantly found in Africa, where 88 percent of Shawai are found; 85 percent are found in West Africa and 85 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 601,629th most commonly held forename world-wide, held by 224 people.
The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 680 people, or 1 in 260,504. In Nigeria Shawai is primarily concentrated in: Kano, where 15 percent live, Niger, where 15 percent live and Jigawa, where 14 percent live. Excluding Nigeria Shawai is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Iran, where 9 percent live and South Africa, where 3 percent live.
Shawai Last Name Statistics demography
Shawai earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.66% less than the national average, earning R 121,992 per year.
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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 Shawai
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