Tewah Surname
Approximately 185 people bear this surname
Tewah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 116 | 1:179,044 | 18,906 |
| Liberia | 64 | 1:68,883 | 5,877 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Tewah (866) may also be a first name.
Tewah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tewah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tewah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻮﺍﻩ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tewah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tewah is the 1,248,410th most frequent family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 39,392,140 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tewah live; 62 percent live in Central Africa and 62 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 276,587th most frequently occurring first name internationally, borne by 866 people.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 116 people, or 1 in 179,044. In Cameroon Tewah is most common in: Northwest Region, where 84 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 13 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 2 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 35 percent reside and Tunisia, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tewah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tewah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻮﺍﻩ | twah | - |
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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 Tewah
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