Wetchen Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Wetchen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Wetchen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wetchen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wetchen is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Wetchen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wetchen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 8,968,613th most frequently occurring last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 50 percent of Wetchen reside; 50 percent reside in West Africa and 50 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 88,571,379. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Kaduna, where 50 percent are found and Plateau, where 50 percent are found. Not including Nigeria Wetchen occurs in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 50 percent are found.
Wetchen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wetchen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wetchen last name declined 60 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Wetchen
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