Amoah Surname
Approximately 148,726 people bear this surname
Amoah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 144,777 | 1:187 | 15 |
| England | 891 | 1:62,534 | 7,353 |
| United States | 862 | 1:420,486 | 36,437 |
| Yemen | 772 | 1:34,230 | 3,132 |
| Egypt | 397 | 1:231,576 | 16,276 |
| Canada | 207 | 1:177,998 | 17,780 |
| Nigeria | 128 | 1:1,383,928 | 53,929 |
| Cameroon | 81 | 1:256,408 | 24,973 |
| Liberia | 71 | 1:62,092 | 5,420 |
| South Africa | 69 | 1:785,184 | 53,751 |
| Germany | 66 | 1:1,219,780 | 78,810 |
| Spain | 61 | 1:766,427 | 32,250 |
| Ivory Coast | 41 | 1:562,713 | 17,068 |
| Netherlands | 38 | 1:444,399 | 44,765 |
| Belgium | 38 | 1:302,543 | 35,124 |
| Northern Ireland | 18 | 1:102,502 | 6,334 |
| Scotland | 17 | 1:314,930 | 14,413 |
| Sweden | 16 | 1:615,422 | 45,338 |
| Australia | 15 | 1:1,799,713 | 85,184 |
| Italy | 15 | 1:4,077,113 | 105,022 |
| Denmark | 12 | 1:470,393 | 30,183 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| New Zealand | 9 | 1:503,147 | 33,029 |
| Brazil | 9 | 1:23,786,037 | 375,389 |
| Finland | 8 | 1:687,088 | 36,047 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Iceland | 8 | 1:47,511 | 3,734 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1:1,569,646 | 17,286 |
| Northern Cyprus | 3 | 1:106,337 | 8,831 |
| Uruguay | 2 | 1:1,715,879 | 35,955 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Amoah (7,236) may also be a first name.
Amoah Demographics
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Amoah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amoah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Amoah (Arabic: اموا) is more commonly found in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Amoah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Amoah is the 3,773rd most widespread surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 49,000 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Amoah are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 75,958th most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 7,236 people.
Amoah is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is carried by 144,777 people, or 1 in 187. Aside from Ghana this last name exists in 62 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
Amoah Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Amoah surname are 35.29% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 88.52% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Amoah earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 32.92% less than the national average, earning R 159,396 per year; in United States they earn 3.34% more than the national average, earning $44,589 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.67% less than the national average, earning $44,384 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amoah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amoah in the Arabic language | ||
| اموا | amwa | - |
| امويه | amwyh | - |
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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 Amoah
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