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
The surname Nyah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻧﻴﺢ, Hindi: न्याह) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyah? popularity and diffusion
Nyah is the 62,235th most commonly held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 903,265 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nyah reside; 55 percent reside in West Africa and 43 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 178,413th most frequently held forename world-wide It is held by 1,829 people.
The last name is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 3,531 people, or 1 in 5,882. In Cameroon Nyah is most prevalent in: Northwest Region, where 62 percent live, Southwest Region, where 22 percent live and Centre Region, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name exists in 21 countries. It also occurs 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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