Sowee Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Sowee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 91 | 1:48,445 | 4,348 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Sowee (12) may also be a first name.
Sowee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowee Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sowee is more commonly found in Liberia than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowee? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sowee is the 1,894,523rd most widely held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 75,911,937 people. The last name Sowee occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Sowee reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most commonly occurring first name internationally. It is borne by 12 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Liberia, where it is carried by 91 people, or 1 in 48,445. In Liberia it is mostly concentrated in: Montserrado County, where 45 percent live, Rivercess County, where 33 percent live and Grand Bassa County, where 16 percent live. Other than Liberia Sowee exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 4 percent live and England, where 1 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 Sowee
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