Lawah Surname
Approximately 351 people bear this surname
Lawah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| Liberia | 77 | 1:57,254 | 5,055 |
| Nigeria | 77 | 1:2,300,555 | 77,632 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Lawah (79) may also be a first name.
Lawah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lawah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lawah (Arabic: علواه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻠﻮﺍﻩ) has its highest incidence in Egypt. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lawah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 799,576th most commonly held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 20,762,239 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Lawah reside; 52 percent reside in North Africa and 52 percent reside in Arabic North Africa. Lawah is also the 1,083,225th most commonly used forename on earth, borne by 79 people.
The last name is most frequent in Egypt, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 502,381. Barring Egypt this last name occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 22 percent reside and Nigeria, where 22 percent reside.
Lawah Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Lawah has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Lawah surname decreased 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lawah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lawah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻠﻮﺍﻩ | allwah | - |
| Lawah in the Arabic language | ||
| علواه | lwah | - |
| لواح | lwah | - |
| علاوه | lawh | - |
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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 Lawah
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