Wainai Surname
Approximately 226 people bear this surname
Wainai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 223 | 1:573,293 | 15,516 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Wainai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wainai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wainai is borne by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wainai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wainai is the 1,088,856th most prevalent last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 32,245,778 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Wainai live; 99 percent live in East Asia and 99 percent live in Nippono-Asia.
The last name Wainai is most commonly held in Japan, where it is borne by 223 people, or 1 in 573,293. In Japan Wainai is most prevalent in: Hokkaido Prefecture, where 33 percent reside, Tokyo Metropolis, where 22 percent reside and Kanagawa Prefecture, where 17 percent reside. Without taking into account Japan it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 1 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Wainai
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