Alouma Surname
Approximately 112 people bear this surname
Alouma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 91 | 1:228,232 | 22,810 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Alouma (397) may also be a first name.
Alouma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alouma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Alouma (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻠﻮﻡ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Alouma? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,727,723rd most commonly held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 65,067,374 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Alouma reside; 85 percent reside in Central Africa and 57 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 433,463rd most commonly used first name at a global level, held by 397 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 91 people, or 1 in 228,232. In Cameroon Alouma is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 40 percent reside, East Region, where 27 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 16 percent reside. Besides Cameroon this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 4 percent reside and Chad, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Alouma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alouma in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻠﻮﻡ | lwm | 33.33 |
| ﻋﻠﻮﻣﻪ | lwmh | 33.33 |
| ﺍﻋﻠﻮﻣﻪ | alwmh | 16.67 |
| ﺃﻟﻤﺎ | alma | 16.67 |
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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 Alouma
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