Nawah Surname
Approximately 574 people bear this surname
Nawah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 165 | 1:26,718 | 2,589 |
| Cameroon | 143 | 1:145,238 | 16,093 |
| Iran | 108 | 1:710,949 | 37,133 |
| Papua New Guinea | 85 | 1:95,926 | 12,852 |
| Indonesia | 28 | 1:4,723,186 | 228,527 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Afghanistan | 6 | 1:5,358,864 | 25,178 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 1:323,354 | 10,053 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nawah (307) may also be a first name.
Nawah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nawah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nawah is held by more people in Liberia than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Nawah.
How Common Is The Last Name Nawah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 554,992nd most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 12,696,073 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 57 percent of Nawah live; 29 percent live in West Africa and 29 percent live in Anglo-West Africa. Nawah is also the 502,288th most numerous first name globally. It is borne by 307 people.
It is most prevalent in Liberia, where it is held by 165 people, or 1 in 26,718. In Liberia it is mostly concentrated in: Nimba County, where 44 percent live, Montserrado County, where 30 percent live and Maryland County, where 12 percent live. Without taking into account Liberia this last name occurs in 17 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 25 percent live and Iran, where 19 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Nawah
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