Wape Surname
Approximately 1,397 people bear this surname
Wape Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 1,330 | 1:6,131 | 390 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wape (775) may also be a first name.
Wape Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wape Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wape is found most in Papua New Guinea. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wape? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wape is the 277,333rd most frequent last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 5,216,568 people. It is predominantly found in Oceania, where 96 percent of Wape are found; 96 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 96 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Wape is also the 294,797th most frequently used first name on earth, borne by 775 people.
The surname Wape is most common in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 1,330 people, or 1 in 6,131. In Papua New Guinea it is most common in: Southern Highlands, where 42 percent reside, Hela, where 15 percent reside and Bougainville, where 10 percent reside. Besides Papua New Guinea Wape exists in 10 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 3 percent reside and Indonesia, where 1 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 Wape
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