Wellah Surname
Approximately 252 people bear this surname
Wellah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 205 | 1:258,252 | 20,734 |
| Liberia | 36 | 1:122,459 | 9,313 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Wellah (87) may also be a first name.
Wellah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wellah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wellah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻟﺢ) is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wellah? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,009,375th most commonly occurring family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 28,918,833 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Wellah reside; 82 percent reside in East Africa and 81 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,024,927th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 87 people.
The last name Wellah is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 205 people, or 1 in 258,252. In Tanzania Wellah is primarily concentrated in: Ruvuma Region, where 41 percent live, Tanga Region, where 29 percent live and Njombe Region, where 26 percent live. Outside of Tanzania it exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 14 percent live and Malaysia, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wellah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wellah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻟﺢ | wlh | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Wellah
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