Welema Surname
Approximately 368 people bear this surname
Welema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 182 | 1:290,888 | 22,561 |
| Papua New Guinea | 150 | 1:54,358 | 6,878 |
| Uganda | 22 | 1:1,774,513 | 60,490 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
Welema (47) may also be a first name.
Welema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Welema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Welema is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Welema? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 772,238th most prevalent family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 19,803,114 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 59 percent of Welema live; 55 percent live in East Africa and 54 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Welema is also the 1,467,136th most widespread given name in the world It is held by 47 people.
Welema is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 182 people, or 1 in 290,888. In Tanzania Welema is mostly found in: Mwanza Region, where 60 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 30 percent live and Geita Region, where 5 percent live. Barring Tanzania Welema is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 41 percent live and Uganda, where 6 percent live.
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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 Welema
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