Polah Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Polah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 25 | 1:5,289,968 | 246,176 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 8 | 1:3,046,921 | 80,371 |
Polah (102) may also be a first name.
Polah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Polah is most common in Indonesia. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Polah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,273,756th most widely held last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 104,107,799 people. Polah is predominantly found in Asia, where 79 percent of Polah are found; 64 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 57 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 935,178th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, held by 102 people.
The last name is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is held by 25 people, or 1 in 5,289,968. In Indonesia it is most numerous in: West Nusa Tenggara, where 32 percent are found, Aceh, where 28 percent are found and North Sulawesi, where 20 percent are found. Excluding Indonesia this last name exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 13 percent are found and India, where 10 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 Polah
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