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 carried by more people in Egypt than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lawd? popularity and diffusion

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

The last name is most widespread in Egypt, where it is held by 153 people, or 1 in 600,887. Without taking into account Egypt this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and Liberia, where 1 percent live.

Lawd Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Lawd has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname contracted 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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