Posah Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Posah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Posah (49) may also be a first name.
Posah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Posah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Posah is carried by more people in Indonesia than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Posah.
How Common Is The Last Name Posah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 5,391,485th most widely held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 560,580,455 people. The last name Posah occurs predominantly in Asia, where 46 percent of Posah are found; 46 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 46 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 1,430,306th most frequently occurring given name at a global level, held by 49 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 6 people, or 1 in 22,041,532. In Indonesia Posah is mostly found in: West Kalimantan, where 100 percent live. Besides Indonesia it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 46 percent live and Ghana, where 8 percent live.
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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 Posah
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