Nyah Surname
Approximately 8,068 people bear this surname
Nyah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3,531 | 1:5,882 | 715 |
| Nigeria | 3,006 | 1:58,930 | 4,418 |
| Liberia | 1,430 | 1:3,083 | 402 |
| Malaysia | 26 | 1:1,134,393 | 49,681 |
| United States | 16 | 1:22,653,683 | 662,747 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
Nyah (1,829) may also be a first name.
Nyah Demographics
Average Nyah Salary in
United States
$21,588 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Nyah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nyah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻧﻴﺢ, Hindi: न्याह) is most common in Cameroon. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyah? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nyah is the 62,235th most frequently held family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 903,265 people. The surname Nyah is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Nyah are found; 55 percent are found in West Africa and 43 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 178,413th most prevalent first name on earth It is held by 1,829 people.
It is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 3,531 people, or 1 in 5,882. In Cameroon Nyah is most numerous in: Northwest Region, where 62 percent live, Southwest Region, where 22 percent live and Centre Region, where 7 percent live. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 21 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 37 percent live and Liberia, where 18 percent live.
Nyah Last Name Statistics demography
Nyah earn a lot less than the average income. In United States they earn 49.97% less than the national average, earning $21,588 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nyah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nyah in the Hindi language | ||
| न्याह | n'yaha | - |
| Nyah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻧﻴﺢ | anyh | 50 |
| ﺃﻧﻴﺎﻩ | anyah | 50 |
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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 Nyah
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