Ben Umar Surname

3,957,383rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 25 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Ben Umar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ben Umar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria251:7,085,710162,099
Indonesia81:16,531,149488,268
England11:55,718,059489,080

Ben Umar Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ben Umar Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Ben Umar is most common in Nigeria. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ben Umar? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 3,957,383rd most frequently used surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 291,501,837 people. The last name Ben Umar occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ben Umar live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 7,085,710. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Kano, where 76 percent reside, Lagos, where 8 percent reside and Zamfara, where 4 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 32 percent reside and England, where 4 percent reside.

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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
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