Wehi Surname
Approximately 490 people bear this surname
Wehi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 194 | 1:118,924 | 5,900 |
| Solomon Islands | 122 | 1:4,754 | 623 |
| New Zealand | 88 | 1:51,458 | 8,272 |
| Papua New Guinea | 38 | 1:214,572 | 29,580 |
| Benin | 31 | 1:333,407 | 26,304 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Wehi (307) may also be a first name.
Wehi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wehi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wehi (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻫﻲ) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It can also be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wehi? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 625,459th most prevalent last name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 14,872,543 people. It occurs mostly in Oceania, where 52 percent of Wehi reside; 43 percent reside in West Africa and 25 percent reside in Solomonic Oceania. It is also the 502,288th most widespread first name world-wide, held by 307 people.
Wehi is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 194 people, or 1 in 118,924. In The Ivory Coast Wehi is mostly found in: Montagnes District, where 79 percent reside, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 10 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 8 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in The Solomon Islands, where 25 percent reside and New Zealand, where 18 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wehi Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wehi in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻫﻲ | why | - |
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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 Wehi
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