Maawiya Surname
Approximately 778 people bear this surname
Maawiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 396 | 1:447,330 | 22,882 |
| Niger | 214 | 1:89,682 | 3,792 |
| Mauritania | 150 | 1:27,299 | 2,305 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Maawiya (1,158) may also be a first name.
Maawiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maawiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Maawiya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻌﺎﻭﻳﺔ) is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Maawiya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 440,082nd most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 9,367,026 people. Maawiya is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Maawiya live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 51 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 233,570th most prevalent given name worldwide, held by 1,158 people.
The last name Maawiya is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 396 people, or 1 in 447,330. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Kano, where 23 percent live, Kaduna, where 14 percent live and Jigawa, where 14 percent live. Beside Nigeria it exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 28 percent live and Mauritania, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Maawiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Maawiya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻌﺎﻭﻳﺔ | mawyt | 53.62 |
| ﻣﻌﺎﻭﻳﻪ | mawyh | 44.93 |
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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 Maawiya
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