Waure Surname
Approximately 142 people bear this surname
Waure Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 116 | 1:70,291 | 9,164 |
| Sudan | 16 | 1:2,344,387 | 4,438 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
Waure (68) may also be a first name.
Waure Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Waure Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Waure is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Waure? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,484,726th most frequently occurring family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 51,320,746 people. The surname Waure is predominantly found in Oceania, where 84 percent of Waure are found; 84 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 83 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Waure is also the 1,181,159th most frequently occurring forename world-wide, borne by 68 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 116 people, or 1 in 70,291. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily found in: Chimbu, where 61 percent live, Eastern Highlands, where 16 percent live and Morobe, where 11 percent live. Outside of Papua New Guinea it exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Sudan, where 11 percent live and Canada, where 2 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 Waure
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