Wattegama Surname
Approximately 1,098 people bear this surname
Wattegama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 1,096 | 1:18,986 | 2,610 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Wattegama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wattegama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wattegama is found most frequently in Sri Lanka. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wattegama.
How Common Is The Last Name Wattegama? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 335,833rd most commonly held last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 6,637,109 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Wattegama reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 100 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.
The last name Wattegama is most frequent in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 1,096 people, or 1 in 18,986. Excluding Sri Lanka this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 0 percent reside and Canada, where 0 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 Wattegama
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