Gollah Surname
Approximately 186 people bear this surname
Gollah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Liberia | 9 | 1:489,837 | 23,279 |
| Iran | 8 | 1:9,597,816 | 173,045 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gollah (14) may also be a first name.
Gollah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gollah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gollah has its highest incidence in Malawi. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gollah? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gollah is the 1,244,200th most commonly occurring family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 39,180,354 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Gollah live; 70 percent live in Southern Africa and 70 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Gollah is also the 3,024,661st most commonly held given name throughout the world. It is borne by 14 people.
Gollah is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is held by 131 people, or 1 in 130,680. Besides Malawi this last name exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 12 percent reside and Indonesia, where 6 percent reside.
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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 Gollah
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