Sahwa Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Sahwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 94 | 1:1,900,467 | 18,692 |
| Indonesia | 64 | 1:2,066,394 | 128,621 |
| Iran | 18 | 1:4,265,696 | 111,937 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Yemen | 7 | 1:3,775,042 | 17,439 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Sahwa (809) may also be a first name.
Sahwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sahwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sahwa (Arabic: شواع, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺴﺤﻮﻩ) is more commonly found in Pakistan than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sahwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sahwa is the 1,163,787th most widely held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 35,549,004 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Sahwa reside; 61 percent reside in South Asia and 55 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 287,448th most common first name internationally, held by 809 people.
It is most widely held in Pakistan, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 1,900,467. In Pakistan Sahwa is most frequent in: Punjab, where 97 percent reside and Sindh, where 3 percent reside. Barring Pakistan this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 31 percent reside and Iran, where 9 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sahwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sahwa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺴﺤﻮﻩ | alshwh | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺤﻮﺓ | alshwt | 50 |
| Sahwa in the Arabic language | ||
| شواع | shwa | - |
| شوعا | shwa | - |
| عشواء | shwa | - |
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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 Sahwa
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