Amawe Surname
Approximately 290 people bear this surname
Amawe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 163 | 1:1,086,765 | 45,077 |
| Namibia | 88 | 1:27,380 | 4,297 |
| Niger | 20 | 1:959,601 | 21,357 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Amawe (17) may also be a first name.
Amawe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amawe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Amawe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺎﻭﻩ) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Amawe? popularity and diffusion
Amawe is the 914,967th most widely held family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 25,129,469 people. The surname Amawe occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Amawe are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 56 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Amawe is also the 2,694,839th most commonly held first name throughout the world, held by 17 people.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 163 people, or 1 in 1,086,765. In Nigeria Amawe is most numerous in: Lagos, where 26 percent are found, Delta, where 20 percent are found and Bayelsa, where 10 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Namibia, where 30 percent are found and Niger, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amawe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amawe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺎﻭﻩ | amawh | - |
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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 Amawe
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