Wiping Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Wiping Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wiping Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea61:1,358,953118,663
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Wiping Last Name Facts

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

Wiping is found most in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Wiping? popularity and diffusion

The last name Wiping is the 6,723,624th most commonly used family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. The surname Wiping is predominantly found in Oceania, where 75 percent of Wiping are found; 75 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 75 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.

The surname is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 1,358,953. In Papua New Guinea Wiping is mostly found in: Morobe, where 100 percent live. Besides Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 13 percent live and The United States, where 13 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Weiping9280/
Wipping9258/
Wizping925/
Whiping921/
Waiping921/
Whipping860/
Wuping8310/
Viping832/
Biping831/
Wüpping77275/
Huiping7751/
Weipeng7732/
Wupping7715/
Weeping776/
Beiping774/
Baiping773/
Weaping772/
Waipeng771/
Vipping771/
Wepping770/
Wuepping712/
Wupeng67117/
Wepeng6713/
Bipeng671/
Uepping62116/
Baipeng629/
Huipeng627/
Beipeng621/
Vepping621/
Huepping5713/
Wupnc551/

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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 Wiping
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