Wishi Surname
Approximately 223 people bear this surname
Wishi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 140 | 1:378,154 | 27,501 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 1:17,864,388 | 68,137 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Wishi (669) may also be a first name.
Wishi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wishi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wishi has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Wishi.
How Common Is The Last Name Wishi? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,098,270th most commonly held family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 32,679,578 people. The last name Wishi is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Wishi are found; 63 percent are found in East Africa and 63 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Wishi is also the 320,785th most frequently occurring first name internationally, borne by 669 people.
The surname Wishi is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 140 people, or 1 in 378,154. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Shinyanga Region, where 93 percent reside, Tabora Region, where 6 percent reside and Simiyu Region, where 1 percent reside. Besides Tanzania Wishi occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 30 percent reside and Pakistan, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Wishi
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