Bollah Surname
Approximately 230 people bear this surname
Bollah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 103 | 1:1,283,973 | 89,572 |
| Liberia | 41 | 1:107,525 | 8,436 |
| Malaysia | 27 | 1:1,092,379 | 48,277 |
| Ivory Coast | 24 | 1:961,301 | 23,927 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bollah (275) may also be a first name.
Bollah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bollah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bollah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻼﻩ) is held by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bollah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,076,574th most numerous last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 31,684,982 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 62 percent of Bollah reside; 58 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 58 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 535,844th most commonly used forename on earth, borne by 275 people.
This surname is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is borne by 103 people, or 1 in 1,283,973. In Indonesia it is mostly concentrated in: Aceh, where 48 percent live, Riau, where 43 percent live and Central Kalimantan, where 5 percent live. Besides Indonesia this last name occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 18 percent live and Malaysia, where 12 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bollah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bollah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻼﻩ | blah | - |
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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 Bollah
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