Penah Surname
Approximately 57 people bear this surname
Penah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 28 | 1:4,723,186 | 228,527 |
| Ivory Coast | 25 | 1:922,849 | 23,346 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Penah (520) may also be a first name.
Penah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Penah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Penah is found in Indonesia more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Penah? popularity and diffusion
Penah is the 2,555,468th most frequently occurring family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 127,851,683 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 53 percent of Penah reside; 51 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 51 percent reside in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 370,386th most widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 520 people.
Penah is most common in Indonesia, where it is borne by 28 people, or 1 in 4,723,186. In Indonesia it is most common in: West Nusa Tenggara, where 93 percent are found and South Sumatra, where 7 percent are found. Beside Indonesia this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 44 percent are found and Cameroon, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Penah
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