Watanable Surname

6,360,413th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Watanable Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Watanable Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Japan11:127,844,29373,547

Watanable Last Name Facts

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

The surname Watanable occurs most in Brazil. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Watanable? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 6,360,413th most widely held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. This last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 67 percent of Watanable live; 44 percent live in South America and 44 percent live in Luso-South America.

The last name is most commonly held in Brazil, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 53,518,583. In Brazil Watanable is mostly found in: São Paulo, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Brazil it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 22 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 11 percent reside.

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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 Watanable
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