Wewege Surname

568,231st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 556 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Wewege Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wewege Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa5351:101,26712,264
New Zealand71:646,90340,014
England41:13,929,515290,718
Papua New Guinea41:2,038,429140,827
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Italy11:61,156,688199,583

Wewege Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wewege occurs most in South Africa. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Wewege? popularity and diffusion

The surname Wewege is the 568,231st most commonly held family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 13,107,097 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Wewege are found; 96 percent are found in Southern Africa and 96 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 535 people, or 1 in 101,267. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: Gauteng, where 34 percent reside, Eastern Cape, where 20 percent reside and KwaZulu-Natal, where 15 percent reside. Apart from South Africa this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in New Zealand, where 1 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.

Wewege Last Name Statistics demography

Wewege earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 52.77% more than the national average, earning R 363,036 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Weweje83162/
Wewage8314/
Wewega831/
Webege831/
Wiweger7722/
Wewezer7720/
Bevege67192/
Wawage6756/
Vewese6716/
Wiwige672/
Wewagi671/
Wevega671/
Wewesi671/
Wiwegi671/
Weweza671/

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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 Wewege
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