Lowassa Surname
Approximately 100 people bear this surname
Lowassa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 97 | 1:545,790 | 34,985 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Lowassa (239) may also be a first name.
Lowassa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lowassa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lowassa is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lowassa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lowassa is the 1,849,867th most frequently used family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 72,875,459 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Lowassa live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Lowassa is also the 578,640th most numerous first name on earth, borne by 239 people.
This last name is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 97 people, or 1 in 545,790. In Tanzania Lowassa is primarily concentrated in: Arusha Region, where 80 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 9 percent live and Kilimanjaro Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Tanzania this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and Kenya, where 1 percent live.
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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 Lowassa
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