Wawie Surname
Approximately 37 people bear this surname
Wawie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Wawie (376) may also be a first name.
Wawie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wawie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wawie is more commonly found in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wawie? popularity and diffusion
The last name Wawie is the 3,228,735th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 196,960,700 people. This last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 54 percent of Wawie live; 54 percent live in Oceania Islands and 54 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 447,400th most commonly occurring first name world-wide It is held by 376 people.
It is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 20 people, or 1 in 407,686. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily concentrated in: East Sepik, where 40 percent reside, Morobe, where 35 percent reside and West Sepik, where 25 percent reside. Excluding Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 38 percent reside and Indonesia, where 3 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
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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
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