Welo Surname
Approximately 4,608 people bear this surname
Welo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 3,181 | 1:23,225 | 2,934 |
| Egypt | 366 | 1:251,191 | 17,305 |
| Uganda | 302 | 1:129,269 | 11,983 |
| Ivory Coast | 141 | 1:163,626 | 7,475 |
| Indonesia | 112 | 1:1,180,796 | 83,720 |
| Malawi | 105 | 1:163,039 | 16,499 |
| United States | 95 | 1:3,815,357 | 209,650 |
| Poland | 95 | 1:400,092 | 42,855 |
| Papua New Guinea | 73 | 1:111,695 | 15,161 |
| Norway | 69 | 1:74,526 | 10,434 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
Welo (1,222) may also be a first name.
Welo Demographics
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Welo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Welo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Welo (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻟﻮ) is found in The DR Congo more than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Welo.
How Common Is The Last Name Welo? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 102,285th most numerous last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 1,581,499 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 88 percent of Welo are found; 69 percent are found in Central Africa and 69 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 226,387th most prevalent given name internationally, held by 1,222 people.
Welo is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 3,181 people, or 1 in 23,225. Besides The DR Congo this last name exists in 39 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 8 percent reside and Uganda, where 7 percent reside.
Welo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Welo has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Welo last name grew 633 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 1,100 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Welo Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Welo last name are 0.62% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 53.85% registered with the party.
The amount Welo earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 1.65% less than the national average, earning 340,378 kr per year and in United States they earn 16.86% less than the national average, earning $35,875 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Welo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Welo in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻟﻮ | wlw | - |
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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 Welo
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