Wangwai Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Wangwai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wangwai (794) may also be a first name.
Wangwai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangwai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wangwai is most common in Nigeria. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Wangwai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangwai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wangwai is the 4,908,606th most commonly held last name in the world, held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 63 percent of Wangwai reside; 63 percent reside in West Africa and 63 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 290,602nd most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 794 people.
It is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 10 people, or 1 in 17,714,276. In Nigeria Wangwai is most frequent in: Nasarawa, where 100 percent live. Besides Nigeria it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 25 percent live and Hong Kong, where 6 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
- 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 Wangwai
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