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
The last name Soway (Arabic: سوواي) is carried by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Soway click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Soway? popularity and diffusion
Soway is the 1,252,959th most widely held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. It occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 52 percent of Soway live; 52 percent live in Oceania Islands and 52 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 24 people.
The surname is most common in Indonesia, where it is carried by 112 people, or 1 in 1,180,796. In Indonesia Soway is mostly found in: West Papua, where 63 percent live, Papua, where 22 percent live and Maluku, where 13 percent live. Excluding Indonesia Soway exists in 6 countries. It also occurs 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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