Nowha Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Nowha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Nowha (20) may also be a first name.
Nowha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nowha Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nowha (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻨﻮﻩ) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nowha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,193,072nd most frequent last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 60 percent of Nowha reside; 60 percent reside in West Africa and 40 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nowha is also the 2,446,817th most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 20 people.
This last name is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 88,571,379. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Federal Capital Territory, where 50 percent live and Rivers, where 50 percent live. Not including Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 40 percent live and Mauritania, where 20 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nowha Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nowha in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻨﻮﻩ | alnwh | - |
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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 Nowha
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