Taway Surname
Approximately 1,221 people bear this surname
Taway Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 672 | 1:150,652 | 25,159 |
| Niger | 308 | 1:62,312 | 2,926 |
| Thailand | 96 | 1:735,816 | 120,839 |
| Mauritania | 66 | 1:62,043 | 4,323 |
| Liberia | 49 | 1:89,970 | 7,357 |
| Indonesia | 22 | 1:6,011,327 | 267,290 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Taway (273) may also be a first name.
Taway Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Taway Come From? nationality or country of origin
Taway (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻄﻮﺍﻱ) occurs more in The Philippines more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Taway click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Taway? popularity and diffusion
The last name Taway is the 308,931st most commonly occurring surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,968,506 people. Taway is mostly found in Asia, where 64 percent of Taway live; 64 percent live in Southeast Asia and 53 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 537,992nd most frequently occurring forename at a global level, borne by 273 people.
This surname is most common in The Philippines, where it is carried by 672 people, or 1 in 150,652. In The Philippines Taway is primarily concentrated in: Bicol, where 29 percent are found, National Capital Region, where 29 percent are found and Calabarzon, where 24 percent are found. Other than The Philippines this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 25 percent are found and Thailand, where 8 percent are found.
Taway Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Taway has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Taway last name grew 150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Taway Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Taway in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻄﻮﺍﻱ | altway | 54.55 |
| ﺍﻃﻮﺍﻱ | atway | 36.36 |
| ﻃﻮﺍﻱ | tway | 9.09 |
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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 Taway
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