Echam Surname
Approximately 137 people bear this surname
Echam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 108 | 1:192,306 | 19,984 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Echam (60) may also be a first name.
Echam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Echam (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻡ) is most common in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Echam click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Echam? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,518,885th most frequently held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 53,193,766 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Echam live; 78 percent live in Central Africa and 78 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,270,172nd most widely held first name internationally It is held by 60 people.
The surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 108 people, or 1 in 192,306. In Cameroon Echam is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 74 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 22 percent are found and Centre Region, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent are found and Uganda, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Echam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Echam in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻡ | alsham | 75 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻡ | alsam | 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
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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 Echam
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