Hananiah Surname
Approximately 1,197 people bear this surname
Hananiah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 524 | 1:338,059 | 18,385 |
| Israel | 492 | 1:17,394 | 2,597 |
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Indonesia | 40 | 1:3,306,230 | 179,945 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hananiah (672) may also be a first name.
Hananiah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hananiah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hananiah (Arabic: حننيا) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. For other potential spellings of Hananiah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hananiah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 313,815th most commonly used family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 6,088,175 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 55 percent of Hananiah reside; 44 percent reside in West Africa and 44 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 320,017th most widespread given name worldwide, borne by 672 people.
The last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 524 people, or 1 in 338,059. In Nigeria Hananiah is mostly found in: Adamawa, where 24 percent live, Taraba, where 21 percent live and Nasarawa, where 16 percent live. Excluding Nigeria it occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in Israel, where 41 percent live and Malawi, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hananiah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hananiah in the Arabic language | ||
| حننيا | hnnya | - |
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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 Hananiah
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