Gellah Surname
Approximately 259 people bear this surname
Gellah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 209 | 1:81,910 | 10,289 |
| Liberia | 20 | 1:220,427 | 14,169 |
| Nigeria | 20 | 1:8,857,138 | 186,571 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Gellah (56) may also be a first name.
Gellah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gellah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gellah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻼﻩ) has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gellah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 990,978th most widespread last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 28,137,243 people. Gellah is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Gellah live; 81 percent live in Southern Africa and 81 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Gellah is also the 1,321,957th most commonly occurring forename throughout the world. It is borne by 56 people.
The last name Gellah is most prevalent in Malawi, where it is borne by 209 people, or 1 in 81,910. Outside of Malawi Gellah occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 8 percent reside and Nigeria, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gellah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gellah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻼﻩ | klah | - |
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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 Gellah
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