Braima Surname
Approximately 8,668 people bear this surname
Braima Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 4,671 | 1:1,518 | 276 |
| Sudan | 3,080 | 1:12,179 | 1,700 |
| Ghana | 416 | 1:64,954 | 6,785 |
| Ivory Coast | 219 | 1:105,348 | 5,399 |
| Nigeria | 86 | 1:2,059,800 | 71,823 |
| Liberia | 70 | 1:62,979 | 5,477 |
| Benin | 52 | 1:198,762 | 18,872 |
| United States | 32 | 1:11,326,842 | 445,236 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Brunei | 2 | 1:209,366 | 3,098 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
The alternate forms: Braïma (19) are calculated separately.
Braima (37,369) may also be a first name.
Braima Demographics
Average Braima Salary in
United States
$30,412 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Braima Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Braima Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Braima (Bengali: ব্রাইমা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻤﻪ, Hindi: ब्रइमा) is held by more people in Sierra Leone than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Braïma. Click here to see other possible spellings of Braima.
How Common Is The Last Name Braima? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 58,337th most frequently used family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 840,741 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Braima are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 62 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 23,495th most commonly occurring first name on earth It is held by 37,369 people.
The last name is most frequent in Sierra Leone, where it is carried by 4,671 people, or 1 in 1,518. Without taking into account Sierra Leone it occurs in 29 countries. It is also common in Sudan, where 36 percent reside and Ghana, where 5 percent reside.
Braima Last Name Statistics demography
Braima earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 29.52% less than the national average, earning $30,412 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Braima Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Braima in the Bengali language | ||
| ব্রাইমা | bra'ima | - |
| Braima in the Hindi language | ||
| ब्रइमा | bra'ima | - |
| Braima in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻤﻪ | abrymh | 50 |
| ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻤﺔ | abrymt | 25 |
| ﺇﺑﺮﺍﻫﻴﻤﺎ | abrahyma | 25 |
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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 Braima
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