Ahmad Shah Surname

155,131st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,827 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Pakistan
Highest density in:
Afghanistan

Ahmad Shah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ahmad Shah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Pakistan2,2071:80,9442,789
Afghanistan6051:53,1461,807
India51:153,413,076951,030
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

Ahmad Shah (50) may also be a first name.

Ahmad Shah Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ahmad Shah Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Ahmad Shah occurs more in Pakistan more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ahmad Shah click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ahmad Shah? popularity and diffusion

Ahmad Shah is the 155,131st most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 2,577,837 people. The surname Ahmad Shah is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Ahmad Shah reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 99 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. Ahmad Shah is also the 1,412,538th most commonly occurring first name internationally, held by 50 people.

The surname is most prevalent in Pakistan, where it is held by 2,207 people, or 1 in 80,944. In Pakistan it is mostly found in: Punjab, where 55 percent are found, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 27 percent are found and Sindh, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Pakistan this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Afghanistan, where 21 percent are found and India, where 0 percent are found.

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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 Ahmad Shah
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