Wandiya Surname
Approximately 194 people bear this surname
Wandiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 96 | 1:84,935 | 11,249 |
| Nigeria | 67 | 1:2,643,922 | 85,652 |
| Indonesia | 22 | 1:6,011,327 | 267,290 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Wandiya (404) may also be a first name.
Wandiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wandiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wandiya is carried by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Wandiya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wandiya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,210,518th most commonly used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 37,564,670 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 49 percent of Wandiya live; 49 percent live in Oceania Islands and 49 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Wandiya is also the 429,175th most frequently used first name in the world, borne by 404 people.
The last name is most frequent in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 96 people, or 1 in 84,935. In Papua New Guinea Wandiya is mostly found in: Hela, where 95 percent live, Enga, where 4 percent live and Southern Highlands, where 1 percent live. Aside from Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 35 percent live and Indonesia, where 11 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 Wandiya
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