Sowha Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Sowha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sowha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sowha is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowha? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 8,968,613th most widespread surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The surname Sowha is predominantly found in Africa, where 50 percent of Sowha live; 25 percent live in Central Africa and 25 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 1 people, or 1 in 20,769,068. In Cameroon Sowha is most prevalent in: Northwest Region, where 100 percent live. Beside Cameroon this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 25 percent live and Nigeria, where 25 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
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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 Sowha
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