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In all the world, นิวาส (Niwas , Niwat , House ) is a common predominantly boy's, but very seldom feminine given name. The forename นิวาส is habitual in Macao, where it is quite a common girly name, Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and India, where it is quite a rare male name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in India, Ethiopia, and Thailand. More prevalently, นิวาส is the last name as well as the forename.
นิวาส is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: House of Change , the fictional place from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story; House , the fictional human, Police Academy and House Hippo , the fictional animal in Canadian TV PSA.