Nouwa Surname
Approximately 245 people bear this surname
Nouwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 177 | 1:117,339 | 13,463 |
| Benin | 25 | 1:413,424 | 29,829 |
| Ivory Coast | 15 | 1:1,538,082 | 31,691 |
| Niger | 14 | 1:1,370,858 | 28,349 |
| Mauritania | 8 | 1:511,858 | 18,608 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Nouwa (371) may also be a first name.
Nouwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nouwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nouwa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻨﻮ) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Nouwa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nouwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nouwa is the 1,028,911th most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 29,745,085 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nouwa live; 68 percent live in Central Africa and 67 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Nouwa is also the 450,877th most commonly held given name worldwide. It is borne by 371 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 177 people, or 1 in 117,339. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 67 percent reside, West Region, where 15 percent reside and Centre Region, where 10 percent reside. Without taking into account Cameroon Nouwa exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 10 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nouwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nouwa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮ | alnw | 44.44 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮﻩ | alnwh | 22.22 |
| ﺃﻧﻮ | anw | 11.11 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮﻯ | alnwy | 11.11 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮﺍ | alnwa | 11.11 |
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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 Nouwa
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