Waliwali Surname
Approximately 830 people bear this surname
Waliwali Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 758 | 1:22,585 | 3,433 |
| Papua New Guinea | 60 | 1:135,895 | 18,658 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Waliwali (31) may also be a first name.
Waliwali Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waliwali Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Waliwali is found most frequently in Malawi. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Waliwali? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 418,547th most numerous family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 8,780,176 people. The surname Waliwali occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Waliwali live; 92 percent live in Southern Africa and 92 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,874,099th most commonly used first name in the world, held by 31 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is carried by 758 people, or 1 in 22,585. Besides Malawi Waliwali exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 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 Waliwali
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