Mowah Surname
Approximately 156 people bear this surname
Mowah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 91 | 1:1,946,624 | 68,955 |
| Cameroon | 47 | 1:441,895 | 37,035 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mowah (42) may also be a first name.
Mowah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mowah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mowah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻮﺍﻩ) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Mowah.
How Common Is The Last Name Mowah? popularity and diffusion
Mowah is the 1,398,030th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 46,715,038 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Mowah reside; 63 percent reside in West Africa and 58 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mowah is also the 1,566,439th most widely held first name world-wide It is held by 42 people.
The surname Mowah is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 91 people, or 1 in 1,946,624. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Delta, where 30 percent live, Lagos, where 23 percent live and Ogun, where 15 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 30 percent live and Liberia, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mowah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mowah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻮﺍﻩ | mwah | 50 |
| ﺍﻣﻮﺍﻩ | amwah | 50 |
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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 Mowah
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