Wosem Surname
Approximately 37 people bear this surname
Wosem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | 1:226,492 | 31,172 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Wosem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wosem Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wosem is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wosem? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,228,735th most commonly held family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 196,960,700 people. Wosem is predominantly found in Oceania, where 97 percent of Wosem reside; 97 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 97 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
Wosem is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 36 people, or 1 in 226,492. In Papua New Guinea Wosem is mostly concentrated in: East Sepik, where 81 percent are found, Morobe, where 17 percent are found and Madang, where 3 percent are found. Apart from Papua New Guinea this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Canada, 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
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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 Wosem
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