Wakah Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Wakah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1:9,446,371 | 356,066 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Liberia | 8 | 1:551,067 | 25,208 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Wakah (49) may also be a first name.
Wakah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wakah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wakah is held by more people in Iraq than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wakah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,273,756th most numerous surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 50 percent of Wakah live; 39 percent live in West Africa and 24 percent live in Levant. It is also the 1,430,306th most commonly used forename throughout the world, held by 49 people.
It is most common in Iraq, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 2,188,853. Outside of Iraq it is found in 12 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 20 percent live and Ghana, where 13 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 Wakah
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