Wadah Surname
Approximately 3,161 people bear this surname
Wadah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 1,283 | 1:139,239 | 3,898 |
| Iraq | 592 | 1:59,158 | 2,196 |
| Egypt | 519 | 1:177,140 | 13,144 |
| Morocco | 273 | 1:126,286 | 22,036 |
| Indonesia | 185 | 1:714,861 | 55,312 |
| Nigeria | 162 | 1:1,093,474 | 45,309 |
| Liberia | 35 | 1:125,958 | 9,506 |
| Papua New Guinea | 24 | 1:339,738 | 45,241 |
| Cameroon | 23 | 1:903,003 | 60,285 |
| Yemen | 14 | 1:1,887,521 | 12,953 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Syria | 8 | 1:2,412,628 | 10,757 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Wadah (43,591) may also be a first name.
Wadah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wadah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wadah (Arabic: واده) is found most frequently in Pakistan. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Wadah.
How Common Is The Last Name Wadah? popularity and diffusion
Wadah is the 141,046th most common last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 2,305,456 people. The last name Wadah occurs predominantly in Asia, where 67 percent of Wadah live; 41 percent live in South Asia and 41 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Wadah is also the 20,704th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 43,591 people.
The last name Wadah is most frequent in Pakistan, where it is borne by 1,283 people, or 1 in 139,239. In Pakistan Wadah is most common in: Punjab, where 95 percent live, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 4 percent live and Sindh, where 1 percent live. Apart from Pakistan this surname exists in 23 countries. It is also found in Iraq, where 19 percent live and Egypt, where 16 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wadah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wadah in the Arabic language | ||
| واده | wadh | - |
| عواده | wadh | - |
| واضح | wadh | - |
| واعده | wadh | - |
| وضّاح | wdah | - |
| وضاح | wdah | - |
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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 Wadah
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