Nahwa Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Nahwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 40 | 1:3,306,230 | 179,945 |
| Cameroon | 17 | 1:1,221,710 | 73,195 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Nahwa (503) may also be a first name.
Nahwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nahwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nahwa is more commonly found in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nahwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nahwa is the 2,273,756th most widespread surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. Nahwa occurs mostly in Asia, where 60 percent of Nahwa live; 60 percent live in Southeast Asia and 57 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Nahwa is also the 377,962nd most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 503 people.
The last name Nahwa is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 3,306,230. In Indonesia Nahwa is primarily concentrated in: East Java, where 48 percent reside, Central Java, where 20 percent reside and Southeast Sulawesi, where 13 percent reside. Besides Indonesia this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 24 percent reside and Kenya, where 14 percent reside.
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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
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