Nawajan Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Afghanistan
Highest density in:
Afghanistan

Nawajan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nawajan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Afghanistan91:3,572,57620,130
Niger11:19,192,017110,060
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220

Nawajan (26) may also be a first name.

Nawajan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Nawajan Come From? nationality or country of origin

Nawajan has its highest incidence in Afghanistan. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nawajan.

How Common Is The Last Name Nawajan? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 5,812,366th most commonly occurring last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 91 percent of Nawajan are found; 91 percent are found in South Asia and 91 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. Nawajan is also the 2,084,397th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 26 people.

The surname Nawajan is most numerous in Afghanistan, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 3,572,576. In Afghanistan it is mostly found in: Kabul, where 22 percent live, Nangarhar, where 22 percent live and Helmand, where 11 percent live. Barring Afghanistan this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 9 percent live and Pakistan, where 9 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
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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 Nawajan
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