Wekan Surname
Approximately 105 people bear this surname
Wekan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 55 | 1:2,404,531 | 143,692 |
| Nigeria | 48 | 1:3,690,474 | 107,175 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 4 | 1:392,104 | 12,338 |
Wekan (14) may also be a first name.
Wekan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wekan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wekan occurs in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Wekan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wekan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,795,579th most numerous last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 69,405,199 people. The surname Wekan occurs predominantly in Asia, where 53 percent of Wekan are found; 53 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 53 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 3,024,661st most common first name throughout the world It is held by 14 people.
The last name is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is borne by 55 people, or 1 in 2,404,531. In Indonesia it is mostly found in: Maluku, where 73 percent are found, South Sumatra, where 15 percent are found and North Maluku, where 13 percent are found. Besides Indonesia this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 46 percent are found and Malaysia, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Wekan
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