Wayai Surname

1,544,715th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 134 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Wayai Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wayai Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea1021:79,93810,532
Indonesia161:8,265,575327,276
Nigeria141:12,653,054227,444
Pakistan21:89,321,942157,560

Wayai (203) may also be a first name.

Wayai Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wayai Come From? nationality or country of origin

Wayai has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wayai.

How Common Is The Last Name Wayai? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,544,715th most numerous last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. The last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 85 percent of Wayai reside; 85 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 85 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 635,584th most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 203 people.

The last name is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 102 people, or 1 in 79,938. In Papua New Guinea it is most common in: Hela, where 66 percent live, Madang, where 14 percent live and Eastern Highlands, where 12 percent live. Without taking into account Papua New Guinea it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 12 percent live and Nigeria, where 10 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
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Waua6716/
Waui6714/
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Wahaiyo674/
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Hwayyis671/
Wayijeh671/
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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 Wayai
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