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
The last name Egha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻛﺎ, Marathi: एघा) is most common in Nigeria. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Egha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 926,175th most commonly held family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 25,570,337 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Egha reside; 64 percent reside in West Africa and 60 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Egha is also the 498,315th most common given name in the world. It is borne by 311 people.
The last name Egha is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 167 people, or 1 in 1,060,735. In Nigeria it is most common in: Delta, where 67 percent reside, Cross River, where 13 percent reside and Oyo, where 6 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 27 percent reside and Indonesia, where 4 percent reside.
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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