Wapai Surname
Approximately 569 people bear this surname
Wapai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 249 | 1:32,746 | 3,822 |
| India | 168 | 1:4,565,865 | 118,158 |
| Indonesia | 140 | 1:944,637 | 69,875 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Wapai (56) may also be a first name.
Wapai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wapai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wapai is most common in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wapai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 558,412th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 12,807,638 people. It is mostly found in Oceania, where 68 percent of Wapai live; 68 percent live in Oceania Islands and 68 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Wapai is also the 1,321,957th most frequently occurring first name in the world, borne by 56 people.
The last name Wapai is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 249 people, or 1 in 32,746. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily concentrated in: Enga, where 30 percent reside, West Sepik, where 30 percent reside and Western, where 17 percent reside. Not including Papua New Guinea this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 30 percent reside and Indonesia, where 25 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 Wapai
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