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
Average Wet Salary in
United States
$37,996 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Wet Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wet Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wet (Arabic: ويت) is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wet? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wet is the 293,918th most commonly occurring family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,610,120 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 39 percent of Wet live; 27 percent live in Southern Africa and 26 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Wet is also the 93,385th most frequently used first name throughout the world, borne by 5,244 people.
The last name is most frequent in South Africa, where it is borne by 335 people, or 1 in 161,724. In South Africa it is most frequent in: Gauteng, where 47 percent are found, Western Cape, where 25 percent are found and Free State, where 9 percent are found. Not including South Africa this last name occurs in 54 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 14 percent are found and India, where 13 percent are found.
Wet Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States Wet are 3.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national 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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