Vowah Surname
Approximately 30 people bear this surname
Vowah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 29 | 1:152,018 | 10,911 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Vowah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vowah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Vowah is borne by more people in Liberia than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Vowah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vowah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,602,217th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 242,918,197 people. The surname Vowah is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Vowah are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Anglo-West Africa.
This last name is most numerous in Liberia, where it is held by 29 people, or 1 in 152,018. In Liberia it is most common in: Nimba County, where 97 percent live and Grand Gedeh County, where 3 percent live. Excluding Liberia this surname is found in one country. It is also common in Cameroon, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vuowah | 91 | 46 | / |
| Vowath | 91 | 0 | / |
| Vowa | 89 | 45 | / |
| Wowah | 80 | 664 | / |
| Fowah | 80 | 146 | / |
| Vawah | 80 | 55 | / |
| Voswa | 80 | 6 | / |
| Voywa | 80 | 1 | / |
| Vowho | 80 | 1 | / |
| Vowat | 80 | 1 | / |
| Vowaz | 80 | 1 | / |
| Vowas | 80 | 0 | / |
| Woewah | 73 | 19 | / |
| Bouwah | 73 | 15 | / |
| Boywah | 73 | 12 | / |
| Vuobah | 73 | 9 | / |
| Fowaah | 73 | 8 | / |
| Boweah | 73 | 3 | / |
| Vohwad | 73 | 2 | / |
| Voiwai | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fohwah | 73 | 1 | / |
| Wohwah | 73 | 1 | / |
| Wouwah | 73 | 1 | / |
| Bowaih | 73 | 1 | / |
| Vowhay | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fowash | 73 | 1 | / |
| Vova | 67 | 985 | / |
| Wowa | 67 | 937 | / |
| Voba | 67 | 480 | / |
| Fowa | 67 | 478 | / |
| Vawa | 67 | 339 | / |
| Vewa | 67 | 47 | / |
| Fouweah | 67 | 15 | / |
| Vowo | 67 | 9 | / |
| Uowa | 67 | 2 | / |
| Vosvaha | 67 | 1 | / |
| Vaswash | 67 | 1 | / |
| Vashwah | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Vowah
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