Watura Surname
Approximately 167 people bear this surname
Watura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 115 | 1:134,246 | 17,609 |
| Papua New Guinea | 34 | 1:239,815 | 32,925 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Watura (17) may also be a first name.
Watura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Watura Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Watura is more commonly found in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Watura? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,338,236th most numerous last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 43,637,999 people. The last name Watura is predominantly found in Africa, where 71 percent of Watura live; 69 percent live in Southern Africa and 69 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Watura is also the 2,694,839th most commonly used given name in the world, held by 17 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Zimbabwe, where it is carried by 115 people, or 1 in 134,246. In Zimbabwe Watura is most numerous in: Harare Province, where 55 percent live, Mashonaland East Province, where 21 percent live and Midlands Province, where 16 percent live. Without taking into account Zimbabwe it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 20 percent live and Indonesia, where 6 percent live.
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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 Watura
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