Nihaya Surname
Approximately 947 people bear this surname
Nihaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 939 | 1:140,840 | 13,947 |
| Maldives | 4 | 1:101,043 | 3,565 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Nihaya (3,262) may also be a first name.
Nihaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nihaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nihaya (Hindi: निहाया, Marathi: िनहया) is most common in Indonesia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nihaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 377,345th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 7,695,402 people. The last name Nihaya occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Nihaya are found; 99 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 99 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Nihaya is also the 125,378th most frequently used first name globally, borne by 3,262 people.
The last name is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is held by 939 people, or 1 in 140,840. In Indonesia it is most frequent in: West Java, where 61 percent are found, East Java, where 28 percent are found and Central Java, where 6 percent are found. Other than Indonesia it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Maldives, where 0 percent are found and India, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nihaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nihaya in the Hindi language | ||
| निहाया | nihaya | - |
| Nihaya in the Marathi language | ||
| िनहया | inahaya | - |
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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 Nihaya
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