Ahava Surname
Approximately 235 people bear this surname
Ahava Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 166 | 1:33,113 | 4,341 |
| United States | 13 | 1:27,881,456 | 736,413 |
| Israel | 13 | 1:658,280 | 45,106 |
| Sweden | 10 | 1:984,676 | 73,605 |
| Ukraine | 7 | 1:6,503,242 | 257,739 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Ahavá (1) are calculated separately.
Ahava (105) may also be a first name.
Ahava Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ahava Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ahava (Hindi: अहवा) is found most in Finland. It can also be rendered as a variant: Ahavá. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ahava? popularity and diffusion
Ahava is the 1,061,269th most frequently held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 31,010,834 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 81 percent of Ahava reside; 75 percent reside in Northern Europe and 75 percent reside in Scandinavia. It is also the 920,134th most frequent forename in the world, borne by 105 people.
This last name is most common in Finland, where it is carried by 166 people, or 1 in 33,113. In Finland Ahava is most frequent in: Uusimaa, where 30 percent live, Lapland, where 28 percent live and Northern Ostrobothnia, where 13 percent live. Beside Finland it occurs in 18 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 6 percent live and Israel, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ahava Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ahava in the Hindi language | ||
| अहवा | ahava | - |
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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 Ahava
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