Tewai Surname
Approximately 34 people bear this surname
Tewai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Tewai (65) may also be a first name.
Tewai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tewai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tewai is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tewai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,373,373rd most frequently used surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 214,339,586 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 44 percent of Tewai live; 35 percent live in West Africa and 35 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,212,820th most frequently held first name on earth, held by 65 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 1,730,756. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 100 percent live. Apart from Cameroon this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 32 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 15 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
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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 Tewai
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