Wet Surname
Approximately 1,299 people bear this surname
Wet Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 335 | 1:161,724 | 18,138 |
| Indonesia | 184 | 1:718,746 | 55,532 |
| India | 170 | 1:4,512,149 | 117,295 |
| Papua New Guinea | 163 | 1:50,023 | 6,268 |
| Thailand | 151 | 1:467,804 | 81,807 |
| United States | 66 | 1:5,491,802 | 273,080 |
| Malaysia | 63 | 1:468,162 | 23,720 |
| England | 26 | 1:2,143,002 | 82,017 |
| Argentina | 19 | 1:2,249,653 | 107,269 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Philippines | 13 | 1:7,787,556 | 197,164 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| Namibia | 5 | 1:481,880 | 11,140 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Zambia | 3 | 1:5,283,307 | 43,479 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
Wet (5,244) may also be a first name.
Wet Demographics
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Wet Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wet Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wet (Arabic: ويت) has its highest incidence in South Africa. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wet? popularity and diffusion
Wet is the 293,918th most widespread surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 5,610,120 people. The last name Wet is predominantly found in Asia, where 39 percent of Wet are found; 27 percent are found in Southern Africa and 26 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Wet is also the 93,385th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, held by 5,244 people.
The last name is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is borne by 335 people, or 1 in 161,724. In South Africa it is primarily found in: Gauteng, where 47 percent reside, Western Cape, where 25 percent reside and Free State, where 9 percent reside. Aside from South Africa this last name exists in 54 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 14 percent reside and India, where 13 percent reside.
Wet Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States those holding the Wet surname are 3.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 50% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Wet earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 74.12% less than the national average, earning R 61,500 per year and in United States they earn 11.94% less than the national average, earning $37,996 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wet Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wet in the Arabic language | ||
| ويت | wyt | - |
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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 Wet
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