Soweli Surname
Approximately 133 people bear this surname
Soweli Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 131 | 1:62,242 | 8,061 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Soweli Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Soweli Come From? nationality or country of origin
Soweli is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Soweli? popularity and diffusion
Soweli is the 1,551,568th most widely held surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 54,793,578 people. The last name Soweli occurs mostly in Oceania, where 98 percent of Soweli live; 98 percent live in Oceania Islands and 98 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
Soweli is most frequently used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 131 people, or 1 in 62,242. In Papua New Guinea Soweli is most numerous in: West Sepik, where 95 percent reside, Southern Highlands, where 5 percent reside and Manus, where 1 percent reside. Other than Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and The Philippines, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Soweli
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