Wabai Surname
Approximately 227 people bear this surname
Wabai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 64 | 1:721,561 | 30,456 |
| Nigeria | 56 | 1:3,163,264 | 96,723 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Zimbabwe | 25 | 1:617,530 | 46,943 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 1:865,378 | 58,754 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Wabaï (9) are calculated separately.
Wabai (70) may also be a first name.
Wabai Demographics
Wabai Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Wabai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wabai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wabai occurs more in Kenya more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as: Wabaï. For other potential spellings of Wabai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wabai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,085,744th most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 32,103,727 people. The last name Wabai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 75 percent of Wabai reside; 36 percent reside in West Africa and 28 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,162,016th most frequently used given name worldwide. It is borne by 70 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is carried by 64 people, or 1 in 721,561. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Kiambu County, where 88 percent live, Nyandarua County, where 6 percent live and Nyeri County, where 6 percent live. Excluding Kenya this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 25 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 24 percent live.
Wabai Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Wabai
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