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 surname Wawie is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wawie? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wawie is the 3,228,735th most frequently occurring surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 196,960,700 people. This last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 54 percent of Wawie reside; 54 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 54 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. Wawie is also the 447,400th most frequently held first name throughout the world, held by 376 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 20 people, or 1 in 407,686. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: East Sepik, where 40 percent live, Morobe, where 35 percent live and West Sepik, where 25 percent live. Apart from Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 38 percent live and Indonesia, where 3 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
- 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 Wawie
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