Aswa Surname
Approximately 2,108 people bear this surname
Aswa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 645 | 1:274,640 | 15,593 |
| Kenya | 388 | 1:119,020 | 9,982 |
| Indonesia | 355 | 1:372,533 | 31,924 |
| DR Congo | 226 | 1:326,901 | 29,253 |
| Uganda | 197 | 1:198,169 | 15,952 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| India | 93 | 1:8,248,015 | 171,602 |
| Cameroon | 39 | 1:532,540 | 42,124 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Palestine | 7 | 1:649,836 | 13,939 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Aswa (1,537) may also be a first name.
Aswa Demographics
Aswa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Aswa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aswa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Aswa is found most in Nigeria. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Aswa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 198,386th most frequently occurring last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 3,457,090 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 77 percent of Aswa live; 32 percent live in West Africa and 31 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 197,820th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 1,537 people.
The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 645 people, or 1 in 274,640. In Nigeria Aswa is most common in: Borno, where 91 percent live, Benue, where 8 percent live and Gombe, where 1 percent live. Besides Nigeria it occurs in 21 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 18 percent live and Indonesia, where 17 percent live.
Aswa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Aswa surname is primarily Christian (94%) in Kenya and Muslim (98%) in Nigeria.
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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 Aswa
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