Chahlawi Surname
Approximately 7 people bear this surname
Chahlawi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
Chahlawi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chahlawi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chahlawi (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﻬﻼﻭﻱ) is most common in Mauritania. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chahlawi? popularity and diffusion
It is the 7,117,718th most common surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 71 percent of Chahlawi are found; 71 percent are found in West Africa and 71 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
This last name is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 5 people, or 1 in 818,973. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Inchiri Region, where 100 percent live. Excluding Mauritania it exists in one country. It also occurs in Lebanon, where 29 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chahlawi Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chahlawi in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﻬﻼﻭﻱ | alshhlawy | - |
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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 Chahlawi
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