Echah Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Echah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 4 | 1:1,023,716 | 25,172 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Echah (144) may also be a first name.
Echah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Echah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻩ) occurs in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Echah? popularity and diffusion
Echah is the 6,063,924th most widely held surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. Echah occurs mostly in Africa, where 80 percent of Echah live; 60 percent live in West Africa and 40 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 769,375th most commonly used first name world-wide, borne by 144 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 1,023,716. In Mauritania Echah is most common in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 50 percent reside, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 25 percent reside and Trarza Region, where 25 percent reside. Outside of Mauritania this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 20 percent reside and Nigeria, where 20 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Echah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Echah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻩ | alshah | 66.67 |
| ﺍﻟﺸﺢ | alshh | 33.33 |
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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 Echah
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