Wairoa Surname
Approximately 56 people bear this surname
Wairoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 41 | 1:110,447 | 14,290 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
Wairoa (38) may also be a first name.
Wairoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wairoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wairoa is most common in New Zealand. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wairoa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,580,327th most prevalent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 130,134,748 people. The surname Wairoa occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 100 percent of Wairoa live; 91 percent live in Australasia and 91 percent live in Australia and New Zealand. It is also the 1,662,754th most common first name globally, borne by 38 people.
The surname is most frequently used in New Zealand, where it is held by 41 people, or 1 in 110,447. In New Zealand Wairoa is most common in: Hawke's Bay Region, where 68 percent are found, Auckland Region, where 20 percent are found and Bay of Plenty Region, where 12 percent are found. Excluding New Zealand this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 18 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Wairoa
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