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 surname Welate (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻻﺗﻪ) is more frequently found in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Welate click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Welate? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,007,164th most commonly occurring last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 83,764,896 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Welate live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The last name is most common in Mauritania, where it is held by 85 people, or 1 in 48,175. In Mauritania it is most prevalent 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 Welate exists in 2 countries. It is also found 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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