Welen Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Welen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 78 | 1:104,535 | 14,121 |
| Indonesia | 33 | 1:4,007,551 | 204,828 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
The alternate forms: Welén (206) are calculated separately.
Welen (1,123) may also be a first name.
Welen Demographics
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Welen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Welen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Welen is more commonly found in Papua New Guinea than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Welén. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Welen? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,465,390th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 54 percent of Welen live; 54 percent live in Oceania Islands and 54 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 237,850th most frequently occurring first name in the world It is held by 1,123 people.
It is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 78 people, or 1 in 104,535. In Papua New Guinea Welen is most numerous in: Southern Highlands, where 69 percent live, Manus, where 26 percent live and East New Britain, where 1 percent live. Beside Papua New Guinea Welen occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 23 percent live and Germany, where 8 percent live.
Welen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Welen are 3.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 50% registered with the political party.
Welen earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 84.7% less than the national average, earning $6,600 USD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Welen
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