Waigalo Surname
Approximately 2,806 people bear this surname
Waigalo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 2,775 | 1:6,115 | 382 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Burkina Faso | 4 | 1:4,588,025 | 21,573 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Waïgalo (645) & Waîgalo (1) are calculated separately.
Waigalo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waigalo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Waigalo occurs more in Mali more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Waïgalo or Waîgalo. Click here for further possible spellings of Waigalo.
How Common Is The Last Name Waigalo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 156,103rd most commonly used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 2,597,130 people. The surname Waigalo occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Waigalo reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Mande Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Mali, where it is borne by 2,775 people, or 1 in 6,115. Aside from Mali Waigalo is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 0 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
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