Wasantha Surname

69,872nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7,083 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Wasantha Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wasantha Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka7,0171:2,965405
Qatar161:147,37516,023
United Arab Emirates121:763,52325,625
England101:5,571,806158,774
Bangladesh41:39,839,19317,324
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Maldives11:404,1727,269
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539

Wasantha (56,358) may also be a first name.

Wasantha Last Name Facts

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

Wasantha is carried by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Wasantha? popularity and diffusion

It is the 69,872nd most frequently held surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,028,878 people. The last name Wasantha is mostly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Wasantha live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 99 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 16,692nd most frequent first name internationally. It is borne by 56,358 people.

The surname is most commonly held in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 7,017 people, or 1 in 2,965. Aside from Sri Lanka this last name exists in 20 countries. It is also common in Qatar, where 0 percent live and The United Arab Emirates, where 0 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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Wasantha
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