Nowase Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Nowase Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Nowase (524) may also be a first name.
Nowase Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nowase Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nowase is more frequently found in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nowase? popularity and diffusion
Nowase is the 8,193,072nd most frequent surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nowase live; 80 percent live in Southern Africa and 80 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Nowase is also the 368,711th most commonly held first name world-wide, borne by 524 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 13,544,426. In South Africa Nowase is mostly concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 100 percent reside. Excluding South Africa it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 20 percent reside.
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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 Nowase
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