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 surname Wores is borne by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wores? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,776,799th most widespread last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname 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 frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 43 people.
The last name Wores is most commonly occurring in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 301,990. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: East Sepik, where 85 percent reside and Madang, where 15 percent reside. Apart from Papua New Guinea it exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Ethiopia, where 33 percent reside and England, where 2 percent reside.
Wores Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency 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
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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 Wores
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