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
Gidah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺟﺪﺍﻩ) has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gidah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,931,261st most frequently used family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 78,360,709 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 65 percent of Gidah reside; 62 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 426,190th most commonly occurring first name worldwide It is held by 409 people.
The last name Gidah is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 54 people, or 1 in 3,280,421. In Nigeria Gidah is mostly concentrated in: Ondo, where 50 percent reside, Lagos, where 35 percent reside and Bayelsa, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in India, where 17 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent reside.
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
- 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gidah
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