Aweisse Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Aweisse Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 15 | 1:272,991 | 12,403 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
The alternate forms: Aweïsse (6) are calculated separately.
Aweisse Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aweisse Come From? nationality or country of origin
Aweisse (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻋﻮﻳﺲ) is most common in Mauritania. It can be found in the variant forms: Aweïsse. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Aweisse? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,798,600th most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Aweisse reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 56 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
The last name Aweisse is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 272,991. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 73 percent are found, Assaba Region, where 7 percent are found and Brakna Region, where 7 percent are found. Barring Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Niger, where 44 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Aweisse Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aweisse in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻋﻮﻳﺲ | awys | 57.14 |
| ﺍﻋﻮﻳﺴﻪ | awysh | 28.57 |
| ﺍﻋﻮﻳﺴﻲ | awysy | 14.29 |
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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 Aweisse
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