Waalu Surname
Approximately 14 people bear this surname
Waalu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Waalu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waalu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Waalu is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Waalu.
How Common Is The Last Name Waalu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Waalu is the 5,213,395th most frequent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 520,538,994 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Waalu live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Waalu is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 16,103,887. In Nigeria Waalu is primarily found in: Rivers, where 45 percent are found, Benue, where 36 percent are found and Borno, where 9 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 7 percent are found and India, where 7 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 Waalu
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