Wadad Surname
Approximately 758 people bear this surname
Wadad Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syria | 440 | 1:43,866 | 2,469 |
| Iraq | 189 | 1:185,300 | 4,427 |
| Afghanistan | 50 | 1:643,064 | 7,334 |
| Mauritania | 37 | 1:110,672 | 6,692 |
| Pakistan | 17 | 1:10,508,464 | 49,949 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Wadad (94,320) may also be a first name.
Wadad Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wadad Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wadad (Arabic: واداد, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﺩﺍﺩ, Marathi: वडद) occurs most in Syria. It can occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Wadad.
How Common Is The Last Name Wadad? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 449,013th most common family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 9,614,177 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 93 percent of Wadad reside; 83 percent reside in West Asia and 83 percent reside in Levant. It is also the 10,729th most frequently occurring forename internationally, borne by 94,320 people.
It is most frequent in Syria, where it is held by 440 people, or 1 in 43,866. In Syria Wadad is mostly found in: Aleppo Governorate, where 100 percent live. Apart from Syria this last name occurs in 19 countries. It is also found in Iraq, where 25 percent live and Afghanistan, where 7 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wadad Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wadad in the Marathi language | ||
| वडद | vadada | - |
| Wadad in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﺩﺍﺩ | wdad | 95.83 |
| ﺍﻟﻮﺩﺍﺩ | alwdad | 4.17 |
| Wadad in the Arabic language | ||
| واداد | wadad | - |
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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 Wadad
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