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) has its highest incidence in Indonesia. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Soway? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,252,959th most commonly held family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. The surname 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 used given name worldwide, held by 24 people.
The surname Soway is most frequently held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 112 people, or 1 in 1,180,796. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: West Papua, where 63 percent are found, Papua, where 22 percent are found and Maluku, where 13 percent are found. Without taking into account Indonesia it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 32 percent are found and India, where 3 percent are found.
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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