Wasket Surname

4,034,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Jamaica
Highest density in:
Jamaica

Wasket Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wasket Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Jamaica181:159,4425,298
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
England11:55,718,059489,080
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419

Wasket Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wasket is found most in Jamaica. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wasket.

How Common Is The Last Name Wasket? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 4,034,050th most common last name on earth, held by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. Wasket occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Wasket live; 75 percent live in Caribbean and 75 percent live in Anglo-Caribbean.

The last name Wasket is most frequently used in Jamaica, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 159,442. In Jamaica it is most numerous in: Middlesex County, where 94 percent reside and Surrey County, where 6 percent reside. Excluding Jamaica it exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 13 percent reside and England, where 4 percent reside.

Wasket Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Wasket has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the surname declined 50 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Waskett92107/
Wosket8332/
Waskit831/
Vasket831/
Wesket830/
Wasked830/
Waschkeit8046/
Woskett77100/
Weskett7727/
Bascket776/
Vaskets771/
Baskeyt771/
Baisket770/
Bausket770/
Weskeit770/
Waskitt770/
Wachkeit711/
Beaskett711/
Wascheidt673/
Woschkeit672/
Basked671/
Bàsket671/
Washkoitz671/

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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 Wasket
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