Wores Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Wores Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 1:6,096,641 | 11,907 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
Wores (43) may also be a first name.
Wores Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wores Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wores is most common in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Wores click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wores? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,776,799th most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. It is mostly found in Oceania, where 55 percent of Wores live; 55 percent live in Oceania Islands and 55 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,545,828th most commonly occurring first name in the world, held by 43 people.
The surname Wores is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 301,990. In Papua New Guinea Wores is primarily found in: East Sepik, where 85 percent live and Madang, where 15 percent live. Not including Papua New Guinea Wores is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Ethiopia, where 33 percent live and England, where 2 percent live.
Wores Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wores has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wores last name declined 90 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Wores
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