Chaloum Surname
Approximately 239 people bear this surname
Chaloum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 193 | 1:200,163 | 23,806 |
| Mauritania | 19 | 1:215,519 | 10,553 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Argentina | 10 | 1:4,274,341 | 152,056 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Chaloum (17) may also be a first name.
Chaloum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chaloum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Chaloum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺷﺎﻟﻮﻡ) has its highest incidence in Algeria. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Chaloum click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chaloum? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chaloum is the 1,048,281st most commonly used surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 30,491,824 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Chaloum live; 81 percent live in North Africa and 81 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequently held first name on earth It is held by 17 people.
The surname is most numerous in Algeria, where it is held by 193 people, or 1 in 200,163. In Algeria it is mostly found in: Jijel Province, where 100 percent live. Besides Algeria this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 8 percent live and France, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chaloum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chaloum in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺷﺎﻟﻮﻡ | shalwm | - |
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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 Chaloum
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