Dawa Surname

12,972nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 43,247 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Uganda
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Dawa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dawa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Uganda11,3321:3,445615
Nigeria4,8651:36,4122,944
Philippines3,8161:26,5303,643
Afghanistan3,0331:10,601736
Indonesia2,9431:44,9375,106
Egypt2,8071:32,7523,484
Niger1,9681:9,752744
Tanzania1,6091:32,9033,866
Cameroon1,5791:13,1531,794
Malawi1,3591:12,5971,971
India1,3081:586,44128,446
Papua New Guinea1,0591:7,699565
Kenya9691:47,6574,893
Bhutan8611:71592
DR Congo6431:114,89812,589
Togo5251:13,8053,854
Saudi Arabia3981:77,52710,981
Zimbabwe2801:55,1378,349
United Arab Emirates2711:33,8093,631
Benin2441:42,3595,435
Iran2031:378,23924,709
United States1811:2,002,536128,575
Pakistan1691:1,057,06413,399
Ivory Coast1621:142,4156,737
Malaysia1131:261,01114,629
China751:18,230,9541,039
Japan751:1,704,59125,810
Ethiopia361:2,709,6188,935
Iraq311:1,129,73113,630
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
Mauritania271:151,6628,378
Peru221:1,444,73322,095
France211:3,162,987209,042
Taiwan181:1,302,4868,817
Yemen171:1,554,42912,359
England151:3,714,537119,675
Canada151:2,456,373146,130
Russia151:9,608,204322,587
Syria141:1,378,6447,647
Nepal141:2,034,3548,267
Thailand131:5,433,719375,884
Brazil131:16,467,256295,032
South Africa111:4,925,246143,631
South Sudan91:1,268,3421,210
Liberia81:551,06725,208
Germany81:10,063,182283,807
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Sudan41:9,377,5498,207
Tunisia41:152,65617,743
Sweden41:2,461,689157,534
Chad41:3,398,0507,703
Lebanon31:1,879,02822,073
Colombia31:15,924,69128,711
New Zealand21:2,264,16249,210
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Kazakhstan21:8,841,248174,813
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Swaziland11:1,298,1991,718
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Burkina Faso11:18,352,10030,051
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Palestine11:4,548,84918,388
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Somalia11:13,452,0619,224
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015

Dawa (56,703) may also be a first name.

Dawa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Dawa Come From? nationality or country of origin

Dawa (Arabic: ضوا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭ, Hindi: दावा, Oriya: ଦାୱା, Tibetan: ཟླ་བ་) is carried by more people in Uganda than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Dawa? popularity and diffusion

The last name Dawa is the 12,972nd most commonly occurring last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 168,510 people. The surname Dawa occurs predominantly 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 prevalent first name worldwide It is held by 56,703 people.

The surname Dawa is most common in Uganda, where it is held by 11,332 people, or 1 in 3,445. In Uganda Dawa is most prevalent in: Yumbe District, where 52 percent live, Koboko District, where 21 percent live and Arua District, where 14 percent live. Beside Uganda this last name occurs in 80 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 11 percent live and The Philippines, where 9 percent live.

Dawa Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is predominantly Christian (57%) in Kenya, Shiite (67%) in Lebanon and Christian (53%) in Nigeria.

In The United States those holding the Dawa surname are 10.41% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 63.64% registered with the 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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dawai898,109/
Dawah894,283/
Dhawa893,926/
Dahwa892,005/
Daway891,795/
Dawaï891,062/
Dauwa89862/
Dawaa89314/
Tdawa89301/
Daewa89195/
Dawha89180/
Daiwa89145/
Dawea8984/
Dawua8977/
Daawa8976/
Deawa8936/
Dajwa8928/
Dawaj8926/
Dawwa8919/
Dawau8915/
Daywa899/
Ddawa893/
Dawoa891/
Dawaî891/
Dahuwa80833/
Dawwas80626/
Dawach80299/
Dayway8088/
Dawhai8056/
Dajwat8049/
Dhawaj8041/
Deaway8033/
Daswad8029/
Dawaha8028/
Dawhea8020/
Dahawa8019/
Daiway8019/
Daywea8017/
Dawahe8016/
Dawhas8015/
Dauway8014/
Dahwai8014/
Dahway8012/
Dhahwa8011/
Daways807/
Deawua806/
Dawaat806/
Dawais805/
Daywah805/
Daawua804/
Dhawah803/
Dhawai803/
Dawaay803/
Dhaway803/
Dawaai803/
Dhajwa802/
Dawaad802/
Dauwah802/
Daawaa802/
Daawah802/
Daiwai802/
Dawasj802/
Dawaih802/
Dajwad802/
Dhaewa801/
Daaway801/
Hdawat801/
Deauwa801/
Deawai801/
Dawa'a801/
Dawahh801/
Dawgai801/
Dahwah801/
D'Awad801/
Dawaah801/
Dawaap801/
Dawatt801/
Daewha801/
Daawat801/
Dawatz801/
Ddawat801/
Dava75102,687/
Daba7559,241/
Dawi7522,489/
Dawe7520,350/
Dewa7518,671/
Dawy753,061/
Dawo752,960/
Dowa752,563/
Dawé753/
Dawê751/
Dawj751/
Daywhea73211/
Dhahwah7383/
Ddawach7381/
Dawachh739/
Dhawach738/
Dashway736/
Dawwadt734/
Dahwash733/
Dhaywad732/
Dahwaya732/
Dhaswad731/
Dhawath731/
Daaswad731/
Daywatt731/
Dachwat731/
Dayweha731/
Daweaha731/
Daywaya731/
Daiwaya731/
Dawouha731/
Dawaich731/
Dahaiwa731/
Dahawai731/
Dawhaad731/
Deawaya731/
Davad6716,826/
Davaa6710,225/
Deuwa677,247/
Dhava673,735/
Dauba673,080/
Dhaba673,050/
Dabaa672,747/
Dauva672,625/
Dawei671,768/
Dauwe671,678/
Daiwi671,453/
Davas671,148/
Dabai671,108/
Davea671,011/
Dhewa67953/
Davga67949/
Davat67939/
Daiba67894/
Douwa67870/
Dabaj67855/
Daeva67844/
Davaz67813/
Davai67779/
Dewah67662/
Dowah67660/
Dawey67651/
Daawe67634/
Davah67599/
Dabay67537/
Davaş67456/
Daiva67371/
Davay67367/
Dabağ67338/
Dhawi67324/
Dabha67309/
Dehwa67301/
Davau67298/
Davap67283/
Davaj67278/
Doowa67276/
Daiwo67209/
Dahwi67194/
Dabau67191/
Daavo67172/
Tdawi67171/
Dasva67141/
Doywa67137/
Dabea67134/
Doway67109/
Daava67109/
Dojwa67104/
Daabo6793/
Deiwa6793/
Dowai6783/
Dawoo6779/
Dewai6767/
Daawo6767/
Daweh6766/
Dasua6765/
Deawi6765/
Deway6763/
Dawie6760/
Deawe6759/
Devaa6757/
Tdawe6755/
Dawho6754/
Dhawe6752/
Daaba6749/
Dawee6748/
Dawou6746/
Doiwa6745/
Daawi6744/
Dhowa6739/
Daave6739/
Daswe6734/
Dawui6732/
Dayba6729/
Dawwy6729/
Daavi6727/
Dawoj6727/
Daabi6727/
Daiwe6723/
Dajwi6722/
Dawoh6720/
Dobaa6720/
Dawih6720/
Dawoi6719/
Daabe6716/
Doewa6715/
Dewaa6713/
Dawoy6712/
Dovaa679/
Dahva679/
Deewa679/
Deava677/
Deaba677/
Ddava677/
Dawydowa676/
Ddowa676/
Dhawy675/
Daywi675/
Daywheah675/
Dawiy675/
Hdawi675/
Davaç675/
Dowaa674/
Tdewa674/
Dahwe674/
Daweu674/
Davidowa673/
Dohwa673/
Datva673/
Dgawo673/
Dewau673/
Dawuo673/
Dawwi673/
Davoa673/
Hdaba673/
Dajua672/
Dawahova672/
Dayva672/
Dhawo672/
Dauwy672/
Dawii672/
Ddaba672/
Daywo672/
Dauwo672/
Dawgo672/
Deywa672/
Dahwy672/
Dgawy671/
Dhawj671/
Davydowa671/
Dawhe671/
Deahwhea671/
Dawip671/
Dawue671/
Dawyi671/
Dauwi671/
Ddewa671/
Dawwe671/
Dawwo671/
Davaï671/
Dabaï671/
D'Ava671/
Dowwa671/
Dewwa671/
Dajwe671/
Daewo671/
Daywe671/
Deawy671/

Dawa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dawa in the Oriya language
ଦାୱାdawa80
ଦୱାdawa20
Dawa in the Tibetan language
ཟླ་བ་dawa76.5
ཟླ་བ།dawa20.14
ཟླ་ཝ་dawa1.69
ཟླ་བdawa0.56
ཟླ་ཝ།dawa0.28
ཟླ་བ་།dawa0.28
ཟླཝ་dawa0.11
ཟླ་བ་་dawa0.04
ཟླ་ཝdawa0.04
ཟླ་མ་dama0.04
ཀུན་ལེགས་künlek0.02
ཟླྥ་བ་dpawa0.02
ཟླ་ཕ་dapa0.02
ཟལ་ཝ་zalwa0.02
ཟླའུ་da'u0.02
ཟཞླ་བ་zashylawa0.02
ཟླ་da0.02
བྯ་བ་bzawa0.02
སྒྲོལ་མ་drolma0.02
ཟླཝdawa0.02
ཟླda0.02
ཐླ་བ་tlawa0.02
ཟྶ་བ་zsawa0.02
ཟླབ་dab0.02
ཟྦ་བzbawa0.02
Dawa in the Hindi language
दावाdava61.54
दवाdava23.08
डावाdava15.38
Dawa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭaldaw31.03
ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭﻩaldawh17.24
ﺩﺍﻭﺍdawa13.79
ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻭﺍaldawa6.9
ﺍﻟﺪﻭﺍﺀaldwa6.9
ﺩﺍﻭﻩdawh6.9
ﺍﻟﺪﻭaldw6.9
ﺩﺍﻭdaw3.45
ﺟﺎﻭﺍjawa3.45
ﺩﻭﺍdwa3.45
Dawa in the Arabic language
ضواdwa-

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