Wakpi Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Wakpi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 62 | 1:131,512 | 18,033 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wakpi (18) may also be a first name.
Wakpi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakpi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wakpi is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakpi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,352,516th most numerous family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 95 percent of Wakpi live; 94 percent live in Oceania Islands and 94 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Wakpi is also the 2,608,198th most frequent first name in the world, held by 18 people.
It is most commonly held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 62 people, or 1 in 131,512. In Papua New Guinea Wakpi is most common in: Jiwaka, where 74 percent reside, Western, where 13 percent reside and National Capital District, where 5 percent reside. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 2 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Wakpi
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