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
Average Amoah Salary in
United States
$44,589 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Amoah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amoah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Amoah (Arabic: اموا) has its highest incidence in Ghana. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Amoah.
How Common Is The Last Name Amoah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,773rd most frequent family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 49,000 people. Amoah is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Amoah reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 75,958th most frequently occurring given name world-wide, borne by 7,236 people.
The last name Amoah is most frequently used in Ghana, where it is carried by 144,777 people, or 1 in 187. Besides Ghana this last name occurs in 62 countries. It also occurs 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 with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 88.52% being registered to vote for the political 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
- 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 Amoah
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