Ahjour Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Ahjour Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 27 | 1:151,662 | 8,378 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Ahjour Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ahjour Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ahjour (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺣﺠﻮﺭ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ahjour click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ahjour? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,730,171st most frequently held family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ahjour live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
It is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 27 people, or 1 in 151,662. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 37 percent are found, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 22 percent are found and Trarza Region, where 19 percent are found. Barring Mauritania this surname is found in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ahjour Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ahjour in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺣﺠﻮﺭ | ahjwr | 81.82 |
| ﺃﺣﺠﻮﺭ | ahjwr | 18.18 |
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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 Ahjour
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