Wakoi Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Wakoi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 140 | 1:58,241 | 7,447 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Wakoi (113) may also be a first name.
Wakoi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakoi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wakoi is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakoi? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,415,499th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Wakoi live; 92 percent live in Oceania Islands and 92 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 881,625th most common first name on earth, borne by 113 people.
The last name is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 140 people, or 1 in 58,241. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: Southern Highlands, where 67 percent live, Madang, where 18 percent live and National Capital District, where 10 percent live. Besides Papua New Guinea Wakoi occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 7 percent live and Brazil, where 1 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 Wakoi
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