Shweir Surname
Approximately 265 people bear this surname
Shweir Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 189 | 1:185,300 | 4,427 |
| Israel | 45 | 1:190,170 | 18,708 |
| Lebanon | 21 | 1:268,433 | 9,626 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Shweir (12) may also be a first name.
Shweir Demographics
Shweir Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Shweir Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shweir Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Shweir has its highest incidence in Iraq. It can also be found as:. For other possible spellings of Shweir click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shweir? popularity and diffusion
Shweir is the 975,866th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 27,500,173 people. The last name Shweir occurs predominantly in Asia, where 98 percent of Shweir live; 98 percent live in West Asia and 80 percent live in Levant. It is also the 3,306,491st most commonly used forename world-wide It is held by 12 people.
The last name is most numerous in Iraq, where it is borne by 189 people, or 1 in 185,300. Beside Iraq it occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Israel, where 17 percent live and Lebanon, where 8 percent live.
Shweir Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Shweir last name is predominantly Druze (90%) in Lebanon.
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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 Shweir
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