Wetene Surname
Approximately 52 people bear this surname
Wetene Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 48 | 1:169,869 | 23,574 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
Wetene (13) may also be a first name.
Wetene Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wetene Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wetene is found most in Papua New Guinea. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wetene? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wetene is the 2,689,253rd most common family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 140,145,114 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Wetene are found; 92 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 92 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Wetene is also the 3,159,357th most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 13 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 48 people, or 1 in 169,869. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily concentrated in: Southern Highlands, where 88 percent are found, Hela, where 10 percent are found and Morobe, where 2 percent are found. Barring Papua New Guinea Wetene occurs in one country. It is also common in Ethiopia, where 8 percent are found.
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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
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- 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 Wetene
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