Ghani Shah Surname
Approximately 243 people bear this surname
Ghani Shah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 242 | 1:738,198 | 10,838 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
Ghani Shah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ghani Shah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ghani Shah is borne by more people in Pakistan than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ghani Shah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ghani Shah is the 1,035,555th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 29,989,901 people. Ghani Shah occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Ghani Shah are found; 100 percent are found in South Asia and 100 percent are found in Islamic South Asia.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Pakistan, where it is carried by 242 people, or 1 in 738,198. In Pakistan Ghani Shah is mostly concentrated in: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 95 percent live, Sindh, where 3 percent live and Punjab, where 1 percent live. Not including Pakistan it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Afghanistan, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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
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