Alaitan Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Alaitan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 23 | 1:449,374 | 31,324 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
The alternate forms: Alaïtan (7) & Alaîtan (5) are calculated separately.
Alaitan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alaitan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Alaitan occurs more in Benin more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Alaïtan or Alaîtan. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Alaitan? popularity and diffusion
Alaitan is the 3,432,070th most frequently occurring family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Alaitan reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most frequent in Benin, where it is borne by 23 people, or 1 in 449,374. In Benin it is mostly concentrated in: Atlantique Department, where 96 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 4 percent are found. Beside Benin it is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 27 percent are found and Jordan, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Alaitan
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