Soway Surname
Approximately 184 people bear this surname
Soway Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 112 | 1:1,180,796 | 83,720 |
| Liberia | 58 | 1:76,009 | 6,407 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Soway (24) may also be a first name.
Soway Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Soway Come From? nationality or country of origin
Soway (Arabic: سوواي) is found in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Soway? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,252,959th most commonly used last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. This surname is primarily found in Oceania, where 52 percent of Soway live; 52 percent live in Oceania Islands and 52 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Soway is also the 2,187,323rd most common first name internationally, held by 24 people.
The surname Soway is most frequently held in Indonesia, where it is held by 112 people, or 1 in 1,180,796. In Indonesia Soway is most frequent in: West Papua, where 63 percent live, Papua, where 22 percent live and Maluku, where 13 percent live. Without taking into account Indonesia this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 32 percent live and India, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Soway Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soway in the Arabic language | ||
| سوواي | swway | - |
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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 Soway
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