Dauda Surname
Approximately 443,248 people bear this surname
Dauda Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 410,220 | 1:432 | 46 |
| Sierra Leone | 11,093 | 1:639 | 117 |
| Ghana | 10,183 | 1:2,654 | 426 |
| Tanzania | 5,294 | 1:10,000 | 1,297 |
| India | 2,069 | 1:370,742 | 19,981 |
| Malawi | 1,438 | 1:11,905 | 1,842 |
| Indonesia | 587 | 1:225,297 | 20,980 |
| DR Congo | 376 | 1:196,488 | 19,671 |
| Zimbabwe | 288 | 1:53,605 | 8,125 |
| England | 236 | 1:236,093 | 19,489 |
| Cameroon | 229 | 1:90,695 | 10,883 |
| Liberia | 193 | 1:22,842 | 2,254 |
| Lithuania | 192 | 1:15,805 | 2,887 |
| United States | 145 | 1:2,499,717 | 152,655 |
| Uganda | 132 | 1:295,752 | 20,635 |
| Nepal | 113 | 1:252,044 | 3,280 |
| Niger | 80 | 1:239,900 | 7,715 |
| Hungary | 57 | 1:172,215 | 15,080 |
| Canada | 34 | 1:1,083,694 | 79,951 |
| Czechia | 22 | 1:483,340 | 51,393 |
| Italy | 21 | 1:2,912,223 | 98,106 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| Iceland | 17 | 1:22,358 | 1,772 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Belgium | 14 | 1:821,189 | 66,436 |
| Philippines | 13 | 1:7,787,556 | 197,164 |
| Poland | 13 | 1:2,923,750 | 116,258 |
| Scotland | 12 | 1:446,151 | 18,166 |
| Germany | 10 | 1:8,050,546 | 248,660 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 9 | 1:192,002 | 129 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 1:3,295,890 | 46,139 |
| Malaysia | 7 | 1:4,213,461 | 150,293 |
| Burkina Faso | 6 | 1:3,058,683 | 18,466 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Argentina | 5 | 1:8,548,683 | 204,003 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Austria | 4 | 1:2,128,859 | 91,203 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
The alternate forms: Daudâ (1) are calculated separately.
Dauda (335,853) may also be a first name.
Dauda Demographics
Average Dauda Salary in
United States
$39,753 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Dauda Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dauda Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dauda (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﺍﻭﺩﺍ, Hindi: दाउदा, Marathi: दौडा, Oriya: ଦାଉଦ, Russian: Дауда) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant: Daudâ. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Dauda? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,203rd most frequent surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 16,441 people. The last name Dauda is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Dauda are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Dauda is also the 3,100th most frequent first name in the world It is held by 335,853 people.
Dauda is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 410,220 people, or 1 in 432. In Nigeria Dauda is most frequent in: Kano, where 10 percent are found, Kaduna, where 10 percent are found and Jigawa, where 8 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this last name occurs in 67 countries. It also occurs in Sierra Leone, where 3 percent are found and Ghana, where 2 percent are found.
Dauda Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is chiefly Muslim (78%) in Nigeria.
In The United States Dauda are 0.1% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 53.33% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Dauda earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 90.03% less than the national average, earning R 23,688 per year; in United States they earn 7.87% less than the national average, earning $39,753 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.57% less than the national average, earning $41,946 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dauda Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dauda in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﺍﻭﺩﺍ | dawda | - |
| Dauda in the Marathi language | ||
| दौडा | dauda | 94.89 |
| दौडे | daude | 1.26 |
| दंुदा | damuda | 0.79 |
| दाउद | da'uda | 0.71 |
| दौड | dauda | 0.63 |
| दाऊद | da'uda | 0.55 |
| दाऊदा | da'uda | 0.31 |
| दंुडा | damuda | 0.16 |
| डौडा | dauda | 0.16 |
| दाडे | dade | 0.16 |
| दाउदा | da'uda | 0.08 |
| दौद | dauda | 0.08 |
| दंूदा | damuda | 0.08 |
| Dauda in the Oriya language | ||
| ଦାଉଦ | da'uda | 80 |
| ଦାଉଡା | da'uda | 8 |
| ଦାଊଦ | da'uda | 4 |
| ଦାଉଦା | da'uda | 4 |
| ଦଉଡା | da'uda | 2.67 |
| ଡାଉଡା | da'uda | 1.33 |
| Dauda in the Hindi language | ||
| दाउदा | da'uda | 15.63 |
| डौड | dauda | 12.5 |
| दाऊदा | da'uda | 9.38 |
| डाउडा | da'uda | 9.38 |
| दौडा | dauda | 9.38 |
| दाऊद | da'uda | 9.38 |
| डाऊडा | da'uda | 6.25 |
| दाउडा | da'uda | 6.25 |
| दाउद | da'uda | 3.13 |
| दौदा | dauda | 3.13 |
| दाऊदअ | da'uda'a | 3.13 |
| दउदा | da'uda | 3.13 |
| डौडा | dauda | 3.13 |
| दौड | dauda | 3.13 |
| दाूद | dauda | 3.13 |
| Dauda in the Russian language | ||
| Дауда | dauda | - |
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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 Dauda
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