Swu Surname
Approximately 969 people bear this surname
Swu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 940 | 1:816,027 | 36,448 |
| Thailand | 16 | 1:4,414,897 | 343,519 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Swu (76) may also be a first name.
Swu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Swu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Swu is more commonly found in India than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Swu? popularity and diffusion
It is the 370,695th most commonly held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 7,520,687 people. The surname Swu occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Swu live; 97 percent live in South Asia and 97 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,107,702nd most frequently used first name in the world It is held by 76 people.
This last name is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 940 people, or 1 in 816,027. In India Swu is mostly found in: Nagaland, where 98 percent reside, Assam, where 1 percent reside and Arunachal Pradesh, where 0 percent reside. Aside from India this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 2 percent reside and Nigeria, 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
- 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 Swu
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