Hokah Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Hokah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 108 | 1:427,592 | 23,179 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hokah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hokah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hokah (Arabic: حوكه) is more frequently found in Kenya than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Hokah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hokah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,701,480th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. The surname Hokah occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Hokah are found; 95 percent are found in East Africa and 94 percent are found in Nilo-Saharan Africa.
It is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is borne by 108 people, or 1 in 427,592. In Kenya it is mostly concentrated in: Vihiga County, where 100 percent live. Other than Kenya Hokah occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 3 percent live and Canada, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hokah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hokah in the Arabic language | ||
| حوكه | hwkh | - |
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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 Hokah
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