Nouah Surname
Approximately 601 people bear this surname
Nouah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 457 | 1:84,533 | 13,155 |
| Liberia | 46 | 1:95,838 | 7,727 |
| Nigeria | 42 | 1:4,217,685 | 117,088 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nouah (167) may also be a first name.
Nouah Demographics
Nouah Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Nouah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nouah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nouah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻮﺡ) is more frequently found in Algeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Nouah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nouah? popularity and diffusion
Nouah is the 536,164th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 12,125,700 people. The surname Nouah is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Nouah live; 77 percent live in North Africa and 77 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 708,111th most commonly held first name globally, held by 167 people.
Nouah is most commonly used in Algeria, where it is held by 457 people, or 1 in 84,533. In Algeria it is most frequent in: Sidi Bel Abbès Province, where 51 percent live, El Bayadh Province, where 29 percent live and Tiaret Province, where 18 percent live. Beside Algeria this last name occurs in 13 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 8 percent live and Nigeria, where 7 percent live.
Nouah Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Nigeria.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nouah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nouah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻮﺡ | nwh | 33.33 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮﻩ | alnwh | 33.33 |
| ﺃﻧﻮﺍﺡ | anwah | 33.33 |
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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 Nouah
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