Wapau Surname
Approximately 67 people bear this surname
Wapau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 48 | 1:562,410 | 41,290 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
Wapau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wapau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wapau is most common in Australia. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wapau? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,333,370th most frequently held family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 108,769,342 people. The surname is mostly found in Oceania, where 100 percent of Wapau live; 72 percent live in Australasia and 72 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.
Wapau is most commonly used in Australia, where it is borne by 48 people, or 1 in 562,410. In Australia Wapau is most numerous in: Queensland, where 90 percent are found, Northern Territory, where 6 percent are found and Victoria, where 4 percent are found. Not including Australia this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 28 percent are found.
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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 Wapau
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