Wapeya Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Wapeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 103 | 1:79,162 | 10,424 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
Wapeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wapeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wapeya is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wapeya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,746,159th most frequent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 66,250,417 people. Wapeya occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 95 percent of Wapeya reside; 95 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 95 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
The last name Wapeya is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 103 people, or 1 in 79,162. In Papua New Guinea Wapeya is mostly found in: Southern Highlands, where 81 percent live, Milne Bay, where 6 percent live and Morobe, where 5 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 3 percent live and Indonesia, where 2 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
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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 Wapeya
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