Werake Surname
Approximately 616 people bear this surname
Werake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 512 | 1:40,642 | 4,863 |
| Papua New Guinea | 79 | 1:103,212 | 13,927 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Werake (1,073) may also be a first name.
Werake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Werake Come From? nationality or country of origin
Werake is found most in Sri Lanka. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Werake? popularity and diffusion
It is the 526,285th most frequently occurring surname globally, borne by around 1 in 11,830,432 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 85 percent of Werake live; 83 percent live in South Asia and 83 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 244,072nd most frequently held first name globally, held by 1,073 people.
Werake is most prevalent in Sri Lanka, where it is held by 512 people, or 1 in 40,642. Apart from Sri Lanka Werake occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 13 percent reside and Qatar, where 1 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 Werake
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