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
The surname Nawah is more commonly found in Liberia than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nawah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 554,992nd most widespread last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 12,696,073 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 57 percent of Nawah are found; 29 percent are found in West Africa and 29 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa. Nawah is also the 502,288th most numerous first name internationally, held by 307 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Liberia, where it is carried by 165 people, or 1 in 26,718. In Liberia it is primarily found in: Nimba County, where 44 percent live, Montserrado County, where 30 percent live and Maryland County, where 12 percent live. Barring 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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