Welate Surname
Approximately 87 people bear this surname
Welate Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 85 | 1:48,175 | 3,569 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Welate Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Welate Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Welate (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻻﺗﻪ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Welate? popularity and diffusion
The surname Welate is the 2,007,164th most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 83,764,896 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Welate live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
This surname is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is held by 85 people, or 1 in 48,175. In Mauritania Welate is most common in: Assaba Region, where 78 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 20 percent are found and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 1 percent are found. Beside Mauritania it is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Welate Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Welate in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻻﺗﻪ | wlath | 60.87 |
| ﻭﻻﺕ | wlat | 30.43 |
| ﻭﻻﺗﺔ | wlatt | 8.7 |
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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 Welate
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