Wolah Surname
Approximately 359 people bear this surname
Wolah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 188 | 1:703,453 | 54,601 |
| Liberia | 168 | 1:26,241 | 2,550 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Wolah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wolah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wolah is borne by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Wolah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wolah? popularity and diffusion
Wolah is the 786,896th most numerous last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 20,299,571 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 52 percent of Wolah are found; 52 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 52 percent are found in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia.
Wolah is most prevalent in Indonesia, where it is borne by 188 people, or 1 in 703,453. In Indonesia Wolah is most frequent in: North Sulawesi, where 74 percent reside, East Java, where 13 percent reside and Southeast Sulawesi, where 11 percent reside. Barring Indonesia this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 47 percent reside and Nigeria, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Wolah
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