Nilah Surname
Approximately 265 people bear this surname
Nilah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 95 | 1:1,392,097 | 95,389 |
| Iran | 86 | 1:892,820 | 42,918 |
| Papua New Guinea | 43 | 1:189,621 | 26,314 |
| Malaysia | 18 | 1:1,638,568 | 67,452 |
| Pakistan | 12 | 1:14,886,990 | 61,272 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Nilah (19,051) may also be a first name.
Nilah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nilah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nilah is most common in Indonesia. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nilah? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nilah is the 975,866th most widely held family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 27,500,173 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 81 percent of Nilah live; 43 percent live in Southeast Asia and 43 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 39,216th most commonly used given name internationally. It is borne by 19,051 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Indonesia, where it is held by 95 people, or 1 in 1,392,097. In Indonesia it is mostly found in: Central Java, where 36 percent are found, West Java, where 27 percent are found and Bengkulu, where 12 percent are found. Besides Indonesia it is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Iran, where 32 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent are found.
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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 Nilah
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