Wetere Surname
Approximately 356 people bear this surname
Wetere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 221 | 1:20,490 | 3,596 |
| Kenya | 80 | 1:577,249 | 27,285 |
| Australia | 33 | 1:818,052 | 51,601 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Wetere (117) may also be a first name.
Wetere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wetere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wetere has its highest incidence in New Zealand. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wetere? popularity and diffusion
Wetere is the 791,719th most frequently held family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 20,470,635 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 71 percent of Wetere are found; 71 percent are found in Australasia and 71 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand. It is also the 864,112th most widely held first name on earth, held by 117 people.
This last name is most frequently held in New Zealand, where it is borne by 221 people, or 1 in 20,490. In New Zealand Wetere is mostly concentrated in: Waikato Region, where 44 percent live, Auckland Region, where 35 percent live and Northland Region, where 11 percent live. Excluding New Zealand Wetere exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 22 percent live and Australia, where 9 percent live.
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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 Wetere
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