Wahaya Surname
Approximately 54 people bear this surname
Wahaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 18 | 1:7,347,177 | 303,310 |
| Uganda | 11 | 1:3,549,025 | 89,142 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 1:17,864,388 | 68,137 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Wahaya (63) may also be a first name.
Wahaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wahaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wahaya is found most frequently in Indonesia. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wahaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,635,433rd most frequently used surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 134,954,554 people. It is predominantly found in Asia, where 54 percent of Wahaya reside; 35 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 35 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,234,572nd most widely held given name on earth, borne by 63 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Indonesia, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 7,347,177. In Indonesia Wahaya is most prevalent in: Lampung, where 72 percent live, Gorontalo, where 17 percent live and Bengkulu, where 11 percent live. Aside from Indonesia this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 20 percent live and Pakistan, where 19 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 Wahaya
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