Gidah Surname
Approximately 93 people bear this surname
Gidah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 54 | 1:3,280,421 | 99,135 |
| India | 16 | 1:47,941,586 | 492,263 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Gidah (409) may also be a first name.
Gidah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gidah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gidah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺟﺪﺍﻩ) is most common in Nigeria. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gidah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gidah is the 1,931,261st most numerous last name internationally, held by around 1 in 78,360,709 people. Gidah is primarily found in Africa, where 65 percent of Gidah reside; 62 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gidah is also the 426,190th most common first name throughout the world. It is borne by 409 people.
The last name Gidah is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 3,280,421. In Nigeria it is most common in: Ondo, where 50 percent live, Lagos, where 35 percent live and Bayelsa, where 13 percent live. Barring Nigeria it is found in 9 countries. It is also common in India, where 17 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gidah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gidah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺟﺪﺍﻩ | jdah | - |
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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 Gidah
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