Wakarua Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Wakarua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
Wakarua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakarua Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wakarua occurs more in Papua New Guinea more than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakarua? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,908,606th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. This surname is predominantly found in Oceania, where 94 percent of Wakarua live; 63 percent live in Oceania Islands and 63 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
The surname is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 10 people, or 1 in 815,372. In Papua New Guinea Wakarua is most numerous in: Madang, where 100 percent live. Other than Papua New Guinea Wakarua exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 19 percent live and New Zealand, where 13 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 Wakarua
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