Abiah Surname
Approximately 651 people bear this surname
Abiah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Nigeria | 269 | 1:658,523 | 30,783 |
| Indonesia | 30 | 1:4,408,306 | 217,989 |
| Malaysia | 29 | 1:1,017,042 | 45,504 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Rwanda | 9 | 1:1,262,775 | 2,632 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Abiah (581) may also be a first name.
Abiah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Abiah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Abiah (Arabic: ابيه) is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Abiah? popularity and diffusion
Abiah is the 504,389th most frequently used family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 11,194,387 people. Abiah occurs mostly in Africa, where 88 percent of Abiah are found; 84 percent are found in West Africa and 84 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 347,331st most commonly held first name internationally. It is borne by 581 people.
It is most common in Ghana, where it is borne by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Excluding Ghana this last name exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 41 percent reside and Indonesia, where 5 percent reside.
Abiah Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Abiah has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Abiah last name declined 89 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Abiah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Abiah in the Arabic language | ||
| ابيه | abyh | - |
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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 Abiah
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