Watara Surname
Approximately 1,367 people bear this surname
Watara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Senegal | 302 | 1:48,276 | 782 |
| Mauritania | 73 | 1:56,094 | 4,003 |
| Ivory Coast | 31 | 1:744,233 | 20,430 |
| Niger | 30 | 1:639,734 | 15,675 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Benin | 21 | 1:492,172 | 32,947 |
| Burkina Faso | 14 | 1:1,310,864 | 11,575 |
| Solomon Islands | 12 | 1:48,336 | 9,616 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| France | 8 | 1:8,302,840 | 321,660 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
The alternate forms: Watará (1) are calculated separately.
Watara (633) may also be a first name.
Watara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Watara Come From? nationality or country of origin
Watara (Arabic: وتارا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﺍﺗﺮﺍ) has its highest incidence in Togo. It can also occur as: Watará. For other potential spellings of Watara click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Watara? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 282,110th most common last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 5,331,050 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Watara are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 61 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 330,859th most frequently held given name world-wide, borne by 633 people.
The surname Watara is most common in Togo, where it is held by 420 people, or 1 in 17,257. Without taking into account Togo this last name exists in 25 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 25 percent live and Senegal, where 22 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Watara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Watara in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﺍﺗﺮﺍ | watra | 76.47 |
| ﻭﺗﺮﺍ | wtra | 11.76 |
| ﻭﺍﺗﺎﺭﺍ | watara | 11.76 |
| Watara in the Arabic language | ||
| وتارا | wtara | - |
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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 Watara
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