Wettey Surname
Approximately 773 people bear this surname
Wettey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 762 | 1:35,460 | 4,134 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Wettey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wettey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wettey occurs more in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Wettey.
How Common Is The Last Name Wettey? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wettey is the 442,270th most frequent family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 9,427,614 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Wettey live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Ghana, where it is carried by 762 people, or 1 in 35,460. Aside from Ghana this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent live and Germany, where 0 percent live.
Wettey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wettey has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wettey last name rose 250 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 Wettey
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