Egha Surname
Approximately 285 people bear this surname
Egha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 167 | 1:1,060,735 | 44,297 |
| Cameroon | 78 | 1:266,270 | 25,687 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Benin | 4 | 1:2,583,900 | 73,293 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Egha (311) may also be a first name.
Egha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Egha Come From? nationality or country of origin
Egha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻛﺎ, Marathi: एघा) is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Egha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 926,175th most numerous family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 25,570,337 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Egha live; 64 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 498,315th most commonly used first name on earth. It is borne by 311 people.
The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 167 people, or 1 in 1,060,735. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Delta, where 67 percent are found, Cross River, where 13 percent are found and Oyo, where 6 percent are found. Beside Nigeria it is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 27 percent are found and Indonesia, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Egha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Egha in the Marathi language | ||
| एघा | egha | - |
| Egha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻛﺎ | aka | 40 |
| ﺍﻗﻪ | aqh | 20 |
| ﺍﻕ | aq | 20 |
| ﺍﻏﺎ | agha | 20 |
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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 Egha
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