Badawa Surname
Approximately 179 people bear this surname
Badawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 79 | 1:2,242,313 | 76,227 |
| Cameroon | 42 | 1:494,502 | 40,134 |
| Niger | 28 | 1:685,429 | 16,503 |
| Ivory Coast | 16 | 1:1,441,952 | 30,506 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Badawa (295) may also be a first name.
Badawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Badawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Badawa (Arabic: باداوي, Hindi: बदावा, Oriya: ବାଡୱା) is most common in Nigeria. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Badawa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Badawa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,276,805th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 40,712,547 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Badawa live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 51 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 513,559th most widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 295 people.
Badawa is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 79 people, or 1 in 2,242,313. In Nigeria Badawa is most prevalent in: Yobe, where 65 percent live, Kaduna, where 14 percent live and Sokoto, where 6 percent live. Besides Nigeria it exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 23 percent live and Niger, where 16 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Badawa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Badawa in the Hindi language | ||
| बदावा | badava | - |
| Badawa in the Oriya language | ||
| ବାଡୱା | badawa | - |
| Badawa in the Arabic language | ||
| باداوي | badawy | - |
| بداوا | bdawa | - |
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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 Badawa
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