Wipa Surname
Approximately 354 people bear this surname
Wipa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 201 | 1:40,566 | 4,927 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Indonesia | 42 | 1:3,148,790 | 173,812 |
| Thailand | 22 | 1:3,210,834 | 301,565 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Wipa (4,868) may also be a first name.
Wipa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wipa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wipa is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Wipa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wipa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 794,916th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 20,586,288 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 68 percent of Wipa reside; 66 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 66 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 97,844th most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 4,868 people.
The surname Wipa is most frequent in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 201 people, or 1 in 40,566. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily concentrated in: Southern Highlands, where 38 percent live, Western Highlands, where 31 percent live and Chimbu, where 13 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea this surname is found in 9 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 19 percent live and Indonesia, where 12 percent live.
Wipa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wipa has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Wipa last name fell 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Wipa
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis