Mouwa Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Mouwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 35 | 1:593,402 | 45,326 |
| Niger | 20 | 1:959,601 | 21,357 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mouwa (44) may also be a first name.
Mouwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mouwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mouwa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻣﻮ) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mouwa? popularity and diffusion
Mouwa is the 1,994,173rd most widely held surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 82,813,022 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Mouwa reside; 50 percent reside in West Africa and 24 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Mouwa is also the 1,525,482nd most prevalent first name at a global level. It is borne by 44 people.
This surname is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 35 people, or 1 in 593,402. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Adamawa Region, where 57 percent are found, West Region, where 11 percent are found and Centre Region, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account Cameroon it exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 23 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 13 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mouwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mouwa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻣﻮ | amw | 50 |
| ﻣﻮﺍ | mwa | 16.67 |
| ﺍﻣﻮﻩ | amwh | 16.67 |
| ﺍﻣﻮ | amw | 16.67 |
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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 Mouwa
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