Waisu Surname
Approximately 839 people bear this surname
Waisu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 617 | 1:287,103 | 16,148 |
| Papua New Guinea | 185 | 1:44,074 | 5,397 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| Solomon Islands | 7 | 1:82,861 | 15,196 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
Waisu (583) may also be a first name.
Waisu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waisu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Waisu is found most in Nigeria. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Waisu.
How Common Is The Last Name Waisu? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 415,025th most widely held family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 8,685,990 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 76 percent of Waisu reside; 74 percent reside in West Africa and 74 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Waisu is also the 346,663rd most commonly used first name on earth. It is borne by 583 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 617 people, or 1 in 287,103. In Nigeria Waisu is most frequent in: Jigawa, where 54 percent live, Kano, where 10 percent live and Kaduna, where 6 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 22 percent live and Uganda, where 3 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 Waisu
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