Dawa Surname
Approximately 43,247 people bear this surname
Dawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 11,332 | 1:3,445 | 615 |
| Nigeria | 4,865 | 1:36,412 | 2,944 |
| Philippines | 3,816 | 1:26,530 | 3,643 |
| Afghanistan | 3,033 | 1:10,601 | 736 |
| Indonesia | 2,943 | 1:44,937 | 5,106 |
| Egypt | 2,807 | 1:32,752 | 3,484 |
| Niger | 1,968 | 1:9,752 | 744 |
| Tanzania | 1,609 | 1:32,903 | 3,866 |
| Cameroon | 1,579 | 1:13,153 | 1,794 |
| Malawi | 1,359 | 1:12,597 | 1,971 |
| India | 1,308 | 1:586,441 | 28,446 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1,059 | 1:7,699 | 565 |
| Kenya | 969 | 1:47,657 | 4,893 |
| Bhutan | 861 | 1:715 | 92 |
| DR Congo | 643 | 1:114,898 | 12,589 |
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Saudi Arabia | 398 | 1:77,527 | 10,981 |
| Zimbabwe | 280 | 1:55,137 | 8,349 |
| United Arab Emirates | 271 | 1:33,809 | 3,631 |
| Benin | 244 | 1:42,359 | 5,435 |
| Iran | 203 | 1:378,239 | 24,709 |
| United States | 181 | 1:2,002,536 | 128,575 |
| Pakistan | 169 | 1:1,057,064 | 13,399 |
| Ivory Coast | 162 | 1:142,415 | 6,737 |
| Malaysia | 113 | 1:261,011 | 14,629 |
| China | 75 | 1:18,230,954 | 1,039 |
| Japan | 75 | 1:1,704,591 | 25,810 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| Iraq | 31 | 1:1,129,731 | 13,630 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Mauritania | 27 | 1:151,662 | 8,378 |
| Peru | 22 | 1:1,444,733 | 22,095 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| Taiwan | 18 | 1:1,302,486 | 8,817 |
| Yemen | 17 | 1:1,554,429 | 12,359 |
| England | 15 | 1:3,714,537 | 119,675 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| Russia | 15 | 1:9,608,204 | 322,587 |
| Syria | 14 | 1:1,378,644 | 7,647 |
| Nepal | 14 | 1:2,034,354 | 8,267 |
| Thailand | 13 | 1:5,433,719 | 375,884 |
| Brazil | 13 | 1:16,467,256 | 295,032 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| South Sudan | 9 | 1:1,268,342 | 1,210 |
| Liberia | 8 | 1:551,067 | 25,208 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 1:1,879,028 | 22,073 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
Dawa (56,703) may also be a first name.
Dawa Demographics
Average Dawa Salary in
United States
$42,532 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Dawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dawa (Arabic: ضوا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭ, Hindi: दावा, Oriya: ଦାୱା, Tibetan: ཟླ་བ་) is found most frequently in Uganda. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dawa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 12,972nd most commonly used last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 168,510 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 66 percent of Dawa live; 32 percent live in East Africa and 24 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Dawa is also the 16,603rd most widely held first name worldwide It is held by 56,703 people.
Dawa is most common in Uganda, where it is borne by 11,332 people, or 1 in 3,445. In Uganda it is most common in: Yumbe District, where 52 percent live, Koboko District, where 21 percent live and Arua District, where 14 percent live. Without taking into account Uganda this surname exists in 80 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 11 percent live and The Philippines, where 9 percent live.
Dawa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is predominantly Christian (57%) in Kenya, Shiite (67%) in Lebanon and Christian (53%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Dawa last name are 10.41% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 63.64% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Dawa earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 72.83% less than the national average, earning R 64,572 per year; in Colombia they earn 39.14% less than the national average, earning $13,817,500 COP per year; in United States they earn 1.43% less than the national average, earning $42,532 USD per year and in Canada they earn 40.33% less than the national average, earning $29,644 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dawa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dawa in the Oriya language | ||
| ଦାୱା | dawa | 80 |
| ଦୱା | dawa | 20 |
| Dawa in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཟླ་བ་ | dawa | 76.5 |
| ཟླ་བ། | dawa | 20.14 |
| ཟླ་ཝ་ | dawa | 1.69 |
| ཟླ་བ | dawa | 0.56 |
| ཟླ་ཝ། | dawa | 0.28 |
| ཟླ་བ་། | dawa | 0.28 |
| ཟླཝ་ | dawa | 0.11 |
| ཟླ་བ་་ | dawa | 0.04 |
| ཟླ་ཝ | dawa | 0.04 |
| ཟླ་མ་ | dama | 0.04 |
| ཀུན་ལེགས་ | künlek | 0.02 |
| ཟླྥ་བ་ | dpawa | 0.02 |
| ཟླ་ཕ་ | dapa | 0.02 |
| ཟལ་ཝ་ | zalwa | 0.02 |
| ཟླའུ་ | da'u | 0.02 |
| ཟཞླ་བ་ | zashylawa | 0.02 |
| ཟླ་ | da | 0.02 |
| བྯ་བ་ | bzawa | 0.02 |
| སྒྲོལ་མ་ | drolma | 0.02 |
| ཟླཝ | dawa | 0.02 |
| ཟླ | da | 0.02 |
| ཐླ་བ་ | tlawa | 0.02 |
| ཟྶ་བ་ | zsawa | 0.02 |
| ཟླབ་ | dab | 0.02 |
| ཟྦ་བ | zbawa | 0.02 |
| Dawa in the Hindi language | ||
| दावा | dava | 61.54 |
| दवा | dava | 23.08 |
| डावा | dava | 15.38 |
| Dawa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭ | aldaw | 31.03 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭﻩ | aldawh | 17.24 |
| ﺩﺍﻭﺍ | dawa | 13.79 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭﺍ | aldawa | 6.9 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻭﺍﺀ | aldwa | 6.9 |
| ﺩﺍﻭﻩ | dawh | 6.9 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻭ | aldw | 6.9 |
| ﺩﺍﻭ | daw | 3.45 |
| ﺟﺎﻭﺍ | jawa | 3.45 |
| ﺩﻭﺍ | dwa | 3.45 |
| Dawa in the Arabic language | ||
| ضوا | dwa | - |
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