Wireh Surname
Approximately 37 people bear this surname
Wireh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Wireh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wireh Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wireh is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wireh.
How Common Is The Last Name Wireh? popularity and diffusion
Wireh is the 3,228,735th most commonly held surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 196,960,700 people. The last name Wireh is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Wireh live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 35 people, or 1 in 5,061,222. In Nigeria Wireh is most prevalent in: Rivers, where 100 percent are found. Other than Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 3 percent are found and Liberia, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Wireh
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