Sonowai Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Sonowai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 11 | 1:400,776 | 20,681 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
Sonowai (61) may also be a first name.
Sonowai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sonowai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sonowai is found in Liberia more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sonowai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,730,171st most widespread surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 39 percent of Sonowai are found; 39 percent are found in West Africa and 39 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 1,257,960th most frequently used first name world-wide, borne by 61 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Liberia, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 400,776. In Liberia Sonowai is mostly concentrated in: Nimba County, where 55 percent live and Montserrado County, where 45 percent live. Apart from Liberia this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 36 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 25 percent live.
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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 Sonowai
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