Weiga Surname
Approximately 82 people bear this surname
Weiga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 42 | 1:97,497 | 6,070 |
| Brazil | 29 | 1:7,381,874 | 170,034 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Weiga (42) may also be a first name.
Weiga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Weiga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Weiga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻳﻜﺎ) is most common in Mauritania. It can occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Weiga? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,075,631st most widespread last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 88,872,511 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 55 percent of Weiga reside; 52 percent reside in West Africa and 51 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Weiga is also the 1,566,439th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 42 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is held by 42 people, or 1 in 97,497. In Mauritania Weiga is primarily concentrated in: Gorgol Region, where 55 percent live, Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 33 percent live and Adrar Region, where 2 percent live. Without taking into account Mauritania it occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 35 percent live and Israel, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Weiga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Weiga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻳﻜﺎ | wyka | 76.92 |
| ﻭﻳﻜﻪ | wykh | 7.69 |
| ﻭﻳﻚ | wyk | 7.69 |
| ﻭﻭﻳﻜﺎ | wwyka | 7.69 |
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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 Weiga
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