Where Does The Last Name Waqqas Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

Waqqas (Hindi: वक्कास, Oriya: ୱାକାଶ) is most common in Pakistan. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Waqqas? ^{popularity and diffusion}

It is the 1,177,228^th most frequently used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 36,076,960 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 92 percent of Waqqas reside; 78 percent reside in South Asia and 69 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. Waqqas is also the 285,014^th most frequently held first name throughout the world It is held by 822 people.

The surname Waqqas is most commonly held in Pakistan, where it is carried by 139 people, or 1 in 1,285,208. In Pakistan Waqqas is most common in: Punjab, where 50 percent reside, Sindh, where 37 percent reside and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, where 4 percent reside. Other than Pakistan this surname exists in 12 countries. It is also common in India, where 9 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 5 percent reside.