Wajere Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Wajere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Wajere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wajere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wajere is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Wajere click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wajere? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,532,898th most widespread family name on earth, held by around 1 in 383,555,048 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Wajere are found; 53 percent are found in East Africa and 53 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
Wajere is most widespread in Tanzania, where it is held by 10 people, or 1 in 5,294,161. In Tanzania Wajere is mostly concentrated in: Mara Region, where 90 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 10 percent live. Excluding Tanzania this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 32 percent live and Cameroon, where 11 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 Wajere
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