Gagah Surname
Approximately 967 people bear this surname
Gagah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Nigeria | 219 | 1:808,871 | 36,014 |
| Indonesia | 138 | 1:958,327 | 70,806 |
| Malaysia | 27 | 1:1,092,379 | 48,277 |
| Cameroon | 15 | 1:1,384,605 | 80,726 |
| Mauritania | 9 | 1:454,985 | 17,374 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Liberia | 3 | 1:1,469,512 | 38,766 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
Gagah (1,355) may also be a first name.
Gagah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gagah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gagah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﺎﻩ) is held by more people in Togo than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Gagah.
How Common Is The Last Name Gagah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 371,278th most widespread last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 7,536,242 people. The surname Gagah is predominantly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Gagah live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 77 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gagah is also the 213,071st most commonly held first name on earth, borne by 1,355 people.
The surname Gagah is most prevalent in Togo, where it is carried by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Excluding Togo it exists in 24 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 23 percent live and Indonesia, where 14 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gagah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gagah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﺎﻩ | kakah | - |
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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 Gagah
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