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) occurs most in Nigeria. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of Mowah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mowah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,398,030th most frequently used last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Mowah are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 58 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mowah is also the 1,566,439th most widespread given name globally, borne by 42 people.
The surname Mowah is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is held by 91 people, or 1 in 1,946,624. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Delta, where 30 percent live, Lagos, where 23 percent live and Ogun, where 15 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 8 countries. It also occurs 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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