Wasambe Surname

4,116,508th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 23 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Wasambe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wasambe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea191:429,14355,452
Uganda31:13,013,093160,157
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972

Wasambe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wasambe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Wasambe is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wasambe? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 4,116,508th most frequent last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 316,849,822 people. The last name Wasambe is mostly found in Oceania, where 83 percent of Wasambe live; 83 percent live in Oceania Islands and 83 percent live in Papuan Oceania.

The surname is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 19 people, or 1 in 429,143. In Papua New Guinea Wasambe is mostly found in: West Sepik, where 89 percent live, East New Britain, where 5 percent live and East Sepik, where 5 percent live. Not including Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 13 percent live and Nigeria, where 4 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 Wasambe
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