Assouma Surname
Approximately 16,462 people bear this surname
Assouma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 12,507 | 1:826 | 91 |
| Togo | 1,890 | 1:3,835 | 622 |
| Ivory Coast | 730 | 1:31,604 | 2,132 |
| Cameroon | 510 | 1:40,724 | 5,432 |
| Morocco | 409 | 1:84,294 | 14,399 |
| Niger | 299 | 1:64,187 | 2,967 |
| Burkina Faso | 37 | 1:496,003 | 6,910 |
| Tunisia | 16 | 1:38,164 | 5,464 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 1:1,879,028 | 22,073 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Assouma (10,232) may also be a first name.
Assouma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Assouma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Assouma (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺳﻮﻣﺎ) has its highest incidence in Benin. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Assouma click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Assouma? popularity and diffusion
Assouma is the 32,351st most frequently held family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 442,689 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Assouma reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Assouma is also the 60,305th most widely held first name at a global level, borne by 10,232 people.
The surname Assouma is most commonly held in Benin, where it is held by 12,507 people, or 1 in 826. In Benin Assouma is most numerous in: Borgou Department, where 48 percent live, Alibori Department, where 20 percent live and Donga Department, where 18 percent live. Aside from Benin this last name occurs in 26 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 11 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Assouma Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Assouma in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺳﻮﻣﺎ | aswma | - |
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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 Assouma
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