Wenam Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Wenam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 10 | 1:1,835,210 | 14,348 |
| Panama | 6 | 1:652,043 | 10,051 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wenam (46) may also be a first name.
Wenam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wenam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wenam is found in Burkina Faso more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Wenam click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wenam? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wenam is the 4,034,050th most commonly held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 42 percent of Wenam reside; 42 percent reside in West Africa and 42 percent reside in Mande Africa. Wenam is also the 1,484,914th most commonly held first name internationally, borne by 46 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 10 people, or 1 in 1,835,210. In Burkina Faso Wenam is most common in: Centre-Est Region, where 100 percent reside. Other than Burkina Faso this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Panama, where 25 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 25 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 Wenam
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