Uwani Surname
Approximately 1,370 people bear this surname
Uwani Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,162 | 1:152,446 | 9,641 |
| Japan | 165 | 1:774,814 | 17,861 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Uwani (13,156) may also be a first name.
Uwani Demographics
Uwani Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Uwani Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Uwani Come From? nationality or country of origin
Uwani is most common in Nigeria. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Uwani? popularity and diffusion
The surname Uwani is the 281,605th most widely held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 5,319,377 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Uwani live; 85 percent live in West Africa and 85 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Uwani is also the 50,856th most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 13,156 people.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,162 people, or 1 in 152,446. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Katsina, where 35 percent live, Zamfara, where 10 percent live and Gombe, where 9 percent live. Beside Nigeria it is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 12 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent live.
Uwani Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Uwani surname is primarily Muslim (100%) in Nigeria.
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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 Uwani
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