Wassia Surname
Approximately 487 people bear this surname
Wassia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| Benin | 175 | 1:59,061 | 7,296 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 | 1:1,529,342 | 12,810 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Israel | 6 | 1:1,426,272 | 75,466 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Wassia (2,082) may also be a first name.
Wassia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wassia Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wassia is held by more people in Egypt than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Wassia click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wassia? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 628,294th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 14,964,160 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Wassia live; 41 percent live in West Africa and 39 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 165,094th most frequently held first name at a global level, borne by 2,082 people.
The last name Wassia is most frequently held in Egypt, where it is held by 183 people, or 1 in 502,381. Other than Egypt this surname exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 36 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 15 percent are found.
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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 Wassia
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