Farawa Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Farawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 41 | 1:4,320,555 | 118,938 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
Farawa (375) may also be a first name.
Farawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Farawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Farawa (Arabic: فراوا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﺮﺍﻭ) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Farawa.
How Common Is The Last Name Farawa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,909,720th most common last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 161,945,465 people. Farawa occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Farawa live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Farawa is also the 448,097th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 375 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 41 people, or 1 in 4,320,555. In Nigeria Farawa is primarily concentrated in: Adamawa, where 44 percent reside, Kaduna, where 20 percent reside and Nasarawa, where 20 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Iran, where 2 percent reside and Mauritania, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Farawa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Farawa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﺮﺍﻭ | fraw | - |
| Farawa in the Arabic language | ||
| فراوا | frawa | - |
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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 Farawa
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