Wasting Surname
Approximately 22 people bear this surname
Wasting Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 13 | 1:757,443 | 56,422 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Wasting (35) may also be a first name.
Wasting Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wasting Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wasting is found in Sweden more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wasting? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,206,983rd most frequently held last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 331,252,087 people. The last name Wasting occurs mostly in Europe, where 64 percent of Wasting are found; 59 percent are found in Northern Europe and 59 percent are found in Scandinavia. Wasting is also the 1,744,716th most prevalent first name globally, borne by 35 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Sweden, where it is borne by 13 people, or 1 in 757,443. In Sweden Wasting is most common in: Stockholm County, where 69 percent live and Skåne County, where 31 percent live. Excluding Sweden it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 32 percent live and Switzerland, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washting | 93 | 1 | / |
| Wastings | 93 | 0 | / |
| Basting | 86 | 868 | / |
| Westing | 86 | 369 | / |
| Wösting | 86 | 65 | / |
| Wosting | 86 | 16 | / |
| Vasting | 86 | 1 | / |
| Baysting | 80 | 8 | / |
| Weusting | 80 | 1 | / |
| Wastinke | 80 | 1 | / |
| Westting | 80 | 0 | / |
| Weistting | 75 | 0 | / |
| Westeng | 71 | 155 | / |
| Vesting | 71 | 129 | / |
| Basteng | 71 | 35 | / |
| Westink | 71 | 21 | / |
| Bastink | 71 | 2 | / |
| Baxting | 71 | 1 | / |
| Bosting | 71 | 1 | / |
| Weustink | 67 | 522 | / |
| Bastinck | 67 | 108 | / |
| Vuisting | 67 | 37 | / |
| Wachteng | 67 | 1 | / |
| Huesting | 67 | 1 | / |
| Vesteng | 57 | 82 | / |
| Bosteng | 57 | 2 | / |
| Bostäng | 57 | 1 | / |
| Vöchting | 53 | 3 | / |
| Vachteng | 53 | 1 | / |
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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 Wasting
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