Tagwai Surname
Approximately 1,616 people bear this surname
Tagwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,606 | 1:110,301 | 7,355 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tagwai (386) may also be a first name.
Tagwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tagwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tagwai is most common in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tagwai? popularity and diffusion
Tagwai is the 246,165th most common family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 4,509,620 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Tagwai are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Tagwai is also the 441,020th most prevalent first name in the world. It is borne by 386 people.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,606 people, or 1 in 110,301. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Kaduna, where 66 percent are found, Niger, where 8 percent are found and Plateau, where 5 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in England, where 0 percent are found and The United Arab Emirates, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Tagwai
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