Waiba Surname
Approximately 9,527 people bear this surname
Waiba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 8,030 | 1:3,547 | 382 |
| India | 340 | 1:2,256,075 | 74,483 |
| Bhutan | 257 | 1:2,397 | 172 |
| Papua New Guinea | 244 | 1:33,417 | 3,909 |
| Malaysia | 157 | 1:187,861 | 11,202 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| United Arab Emirates | 102 | 1:89,826 | 8,037 |
| Qatar | 100 | 1:23,580 | 2,513 |
| Uganda | 91 | 1:429,003 | 26,108 |
| Switzerland | 15 | 1:547,528 | 38,365 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Waiba (239) may also be a first name.
Waiba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waiba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Waiba (Tibetan: ཝའི་བ།) occurs in Nepal more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Waiba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 53,578th most commonly held last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 764,936 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 94 percent of Waiba reside; 91 percent reside in South Asia and 88 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Waiba is also the 578,640th most frequently occurring forename throughout the world It is held by 239 people.
The surname Waiba is most frequently held in Nepal, where it is held by 8,030 people, or 1 in 3,547. In Nepal it is most frequent in: Narayani, where 55 percent reside, Bagmati, where 26 percent reside and Janakpur, where 18 percent reside. Barring Nepal Waiba exists in 24 countries. It is also common in India, where 4 percent reside and Bhutan, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Waiba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Waiba in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཝའི་བ། | wewa | 89.62 |
| ཝའི་སྦ། | wéba | 5.66 |
| ཝའི་བ་ | wewa | 1.89 |
| བྷ་འདུར་ཝའི་བ་ | bhadurwewa | 0.94 |
| ཝའི་བ | wewa | 0.47 |
| མོ་ཝའི་བ་ | mowewa | 0.47 |
| ཝའི་བྷ། | wébha | 0.47 |
| མ་ཡ་ཝའི་བ་ | mayawewa | 0.47 |
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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 Waiba
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