Wanie Surname
Approximately 2,316 people bear this surname
Wanie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,484 | 1:13,995 | 1,913 |
| India | 230 | 1:3,335,067 | 96,460 |
| South Africa | 179 | 1:302,669 | 29,078 |
| Papua New Guinea | 141 | 1:57,828 | 7,385 |
| United States | 108 | 1:3,356,101 | 190,802 |
| Germany | 79 | 1:1,019,056 | 69,716 |
| Malaysia | 33 | 1:893,764 | 40,799 |
| Indonesia | 25 | 1:5,289,968 | 246,176 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Czechia | 10 | 1:1,063,347 | 80,937 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
The alternate forms: Wanié (1) are calculated separately.
Wanie (567) may also be a first name.
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Wanie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wanie Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wanie is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Wanié. Click here for further potential spellings of Wanie.
How Common Is The Last Name Wanie? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 183,374th most frequent last name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 3,146,609 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Wanie are found; 44 percent are found in Central Africa and 35 percent are found in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. It is also the 352,372nd most frequent first name globally, held by 567 people.
The surname Wanie is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 1,484 people, or 1 in 13,995. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Far North Region, where 63 percent reside, North Region, where 20 percent reside and Centre Region, where 7 percent reside. Not including Cameroon this surname exists in 16 countries. It is also common in India, where 10 percent reside and South Africa, where 8 percent reside.
Wanie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wanie has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Wanie last name rose 900 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Wanie Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Wanie surname are 4.95% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 51.72% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Wanie earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 49.01% less than the national average, earning R 121,164 per year; in United States they earn 10.38% more than the national average, earning $47,630 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.57% more than the national average, earning $53,443 CAD per year.
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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 Wanie
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