Wemi Surname
Approximately 421 people bear this surname
Wemi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 206 | 1:859,916 | 37,696 |
| Papua New Guinea | 181 | 1:45,048 | 5,552 |
| Indonesia | 21 | 1:6,297,581 | 275,398 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wemi (565) may also be a first name.
Wemi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wemi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wemi is most common in Nigeria. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wemi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wemi is the 699,651st most widely held last name in the world, held by around 1 in 17,310,085 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Wemi reside; 49 percent reside in West Africa and 49 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Wemi is also the 353,173rd most prevalent first name on earth, held by 565 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 206 people, or 1 in 859,916. In Nigeria Wemi is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 82 percent reside, Rivers, where 7 percent reside and Lagos, where 6 percent reside. Not including Nigeria Wemi exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 43 percent reside and Indonesia, where 5 percent reside.
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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 Wemi
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