Watsai Surname
Approximately 222 people bear this surname
Watsai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 219 | 1:808,871 | 36,014 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
Watsai (33) may also be a first name.
Watsai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Watsai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Watsai occurs most in Nigeria. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Watsai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Watsai is the 1,101,507th most widely held family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 32,826,783 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Watsai live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Watsai is also the 1,807,719th most commonly held first name worldwide It is held by 33 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 219 people, or 1 in 808,871. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Borno, where 82 percent reside, Adamawa, where 5 percent reside and Kaduna, where 5 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in Thailand, where 1 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
- 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 Watsai
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