Lawd Surname

1,398,030th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 156 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Egypt
Highest density in:
Egypt

Lawd Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Lawd Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Egypt1531:600,88732,813
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England101:2,437,53768,340
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States81:6,277,336262,771

Lawd Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lawd Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lawd (Arabic: علود) is more commonly found in Egypt than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Lawd.

How Common Is The Last Name Lawd? popularity and diffusion

The last name Lawd is the 1,398,030th most commonly used surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. The surname Lawd occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Lawd live; 98 percent live in North Africa and 98 percent live in Arabic North Africa.

The surname is most commonly occurring in Egypt, where it is carried by 153 people, or 1 in 600,887. Aside from Egypt it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Liberia, where 1 percent reside.

Lawd Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Lawd has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Lawd last name decreased 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Laswd891/
Lawt75360/
Lowd75267/
Lewd7510/
Lafd758/
Lawte6781/
Llowd672/
Loywd671/
Lhewd671/
Lhafd671/
Lawth671/
Lawhte6014/
Laiwet604/
Lawthe600/
Lowt507/
Lefd501/
Lofd501/
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Lawd Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Lawd in the Arabic language
علودlwd-
لودlwd-

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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 Lawd
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