Adowa Surname
Approximately 1,115 people bear this surname
Adowa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 416 | 1:64,954 | 6,785 |
| Somalia | 294 | 1:45,755 | 2,122 |
| Uganda | 235 | 1:166,125 | 14,227 |
| Nigeria | 128 | 1:1,383,928 | 53,929 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Somaliland | 1 | 1:3,500,182 | 1,592 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Adowa (77) may also be a first name.
Adowa Demographics
Adowa Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Adowa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adowa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adowa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺩﻭ) occurs most in Ghana. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adowa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Adowa is the 331,780th most commonly used last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,535,916 people. The surname Adowa is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Adowa are found; 49 percent are found in West Africa and 49 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,100,117th most widely held forename world-wide. It is borne by 77 people.
This last name is most widely held in Ghana, where it is borne by 416 people, or 1 in 64,954. Besides Ghana it occurs in 17 countries. It is also common in Somalia, where 26 percent live and Uganda, where 21 percent live.
Adowa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Nigeria.
Phonetically Similar Names
Adowa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adowa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺩﻭ | adw | - |
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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 Adowa
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