Yawe Surname
Approximately 6,843 people bear this surname
Yawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 3,598 | 1:10,850 | 1,820 |
| Nigeria | 1,288 | 1:137,533 | 8,869 |
| DR Congo | 650 | 1:113,661 | 12,476 |
| Papua New Guinea | 508 | 1:16,051 | 1,581 |
| Cameroon | 394 | 1:52,713 | 6,872 |
| Benin | 259 | 1:39,906 | 5,128 |
| Ivory Coast | 43 | 1:536,540 | 16,589 |
| Indonesia | 26 | 1:5,086,507 | 239,866 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| Burkina Faso | 13 | 1:1,411,700 | 12,072 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Chad | 9 | 1:1,510,244 | 5,402 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 8 | 1:553,733 | 17,655 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Yawé (1) are calculated separately.
Yawe (1,187) may also be a first name.
Yawe Demographics
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Yawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yawe is held by more people in Uganda than any other country/territory. It can also occur as: Yawé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yawe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 72,098th most frequently used surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,064,964 people. The surname Yawe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Yawe reside; 53 percent reside in East Africa and 53 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 230,167th most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 1,187 people.
The surname Yawe is most frequently held in Uganda, where it is held by 3,598 people, or 1 in 10,850. In Uganda Yawe is mostly concentrated in: Wakiso District, where 26 percent reside, Kampala District, where 14 percent reside and Mityana District, where 8 percent reside. Apart from Uganda Yawe is found in 25 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 19 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 9 percent reside.
Yawe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Yawe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Yawe last name grew 667 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Yawe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is predominantly Anglican (63%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Yawe surname are 24.66% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 71.43% being registered with the political party.
The amount Yawe earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 141.94% more than the national average, earning R 574,932 per year and in United States they earn 23.92% more than the national average, earning $53,472 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
- 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 Yawe
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