Wanake Surname
Approximately 29 people bear this surname
Wanake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Wanakè (1) are calculated separately.
Wanake (26) may also be a first name.
Wanake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wanake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wanake occurs most in Papua New Guinea. It can be found in the variant forms: Wanakè. For other potential spellings of Wanake click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wanake? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wanake is the 3,665,662nd most commonly occurring surname globally It is held by around 1 in 251,294,687 people. Wanake occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 55 percent of Wanake live; 55 percent live in Oceania Islands and 55 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,084,397th most frequently held first name internationally, borne by 26 people.
Wanake is most widespread in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 16 people, or 1 in 509,607. In Papua New Guinea Wanake is most frequent in: Bougainville, where 63 percent reside, East New Britain, where 25 percent reside and Eastern Highlands, where 6 percent reside. Barring Papua New Guinea it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 28 percent reside and Niger, where 17 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Wanake
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