Sewai Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Sewai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 153 | 1:67,553 | 8,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 56 | 1:145,602 | 20,089 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
The alternate forms: Sewaï (124) & Sewaî (17) are calculated separately.
Sewai (46) may also be a first name.
Sewai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sewai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sewai (Marathi: सेवई) has its highest incidence in Benin. It can be rendered as a variant: Sewaï or Sewaî. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sewai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,073,555th most widespread family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 31,547,818 people. The surname Sewai is mostly found in Africa, where 70 percent of Sewai are found; 70 percent are found in West Africa and 66 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sewai is also the 1,484,914th most widely held first name globally, held by 46 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Benin, where it is held by 153 people, or 1 in 67,553. In Benin Sewai is primarily concentrated in: Zou Department, where 77 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 10 percent reside and Ouémé Department, where 5 percent reside. Besides Benin this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 24 percent reside and Cameroon, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sewai Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sewai in the Marathi language | ||
| सेवई | seva'i | - |
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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 Sewai
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