Wore Surname
Approximately 413 people bear this surname
Wore Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 250 | 1:83,076 | 10,122 |
| Ivory Coast | 30 | 1:769,041 | 20,891 |
| Papua New Guinea | 23 | 1:354,509 | 47,011 |
| Solomon Islands | 21 | 1:27,620 | 5,477 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Benin | 13 | 1:795,046 | 42,452 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 1:1,403,476 | 76,064 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Liberia | 3 | 1:1,469,512 | 38,766 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 33 | 1:738,648 | 34,140 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 1:3,138,668 | 142,671 |
The alternate forms: Wöre (1) are calculated separately.
Wore (1,754) may also be a first name.
Wore Demographics
Average Wore Salary in
United States
$29,975 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Wore Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wore Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wore is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also be found as: Wöre. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wore? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 709,895th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 17,645,390 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Wore reside; 59 percent reside in West Africa and 23 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Wore is also the 182,874th most prevalent given name in the world, borne by 1,754 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 250 people, or 1 in 83,076. In Cameroon it is most common in: Far North Region, where 41 percent are found, North Region, where 34 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 11 percent are found. Not including Cameroon this surname is found in 19 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 7 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent are found.
Wore Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wore has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Wore last name fell 44 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 97 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Wore Last Name Statistics demography
Wore earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 30.53% less than the national average, earning $29,975 USD per year.
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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
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