Wettasinghe Surname

113,815th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,064 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sri Lanka
Highest density in:
Sri Lanka

Wettasinghe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wettasinghe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sri Lanka3,9471:5,272767
Australia291:930,88655,860
United States231:15,759,084542,937
England221:2,532,63991,802
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Qatar91:262,00030,726
Canada51:7,369,118289,406
France41:16,605,680368,153
New Zealand41:1,132,08147,619
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Italy11:61,156,688199,583

Wettasinghe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wettasinghe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Wettasinghe is held by more people in Sri Lanka than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Wettasinghe? popularity and diffusion

The surname Wettasinghe is the 113,815th most frequently occurring surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 1,793,195 people. The last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Wettasinghe reside; 97 percent reside in South Asia and 97 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.

The surname is most widely held in Sri Lanka, where it is carried by 3,947 people, or 1 in 5,272. Without taking into account Sri Lanka it is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.

Wettasinghe Last Name Statistics demography

Wettasinghe earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 137.58% more than the national average, earning $102,514 USD per year.

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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 Wettasinghe
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