Thawai Surname
Approximately 855 people bear this surname
Thawai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 830 | 1:85,106 | 11,672 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Thawai (3,169) may also be a first name.
Thawai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Thawai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Thawai (Marathi: थवई) is held by more people in Thailand than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Thawai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 408,845th most commonly used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 8,523,446 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Thawai are found; 97 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 97 percent are found in Tai-Asia. Thawai is also the 127,710th most common first name in the world It is held by 3,169 people.
Thawai is most widely held in Thailand, where it is held by 830 people, or 1 in 85,106. In Thailand Thawai is most prevalent in: Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, where 29 percent live, Chiang Mai Province, where 15 percent live and Kanchanaburi Province, where 14 percent live. Excluding Thailand this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 3 percent live and Norway, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Thawai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Thawai in the Marathi language | ||
| थवई | thava'i | 50 |
| थवाई | thava'i | 25 |
| ठावरी | thavari | 25 |
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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 Thawai
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