Ghassoum Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Ghassoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
Ghassoum (40) may also be a first name.
Ghassoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ghassoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ghassoum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻘﺎﺳﻢ) is found in Algeria more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ghassoum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 6,360,413th most common surname in the world, held by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Ghassoum are found; 44 percent are found in North Africa and 44 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 1,614,485th most commonly used first name world-wide It is held by 40 people.
Ghassoum is most widely held in Algeria, where it is borne by 4 people, or 1 in 9,657,888. In Algeria it is mostly found in: Tiaret Province, where 100 percent reside. Besides Algeria it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 22 percent reside and Iraq, where 11 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ghassoum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ghassoum in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻘﺎﺳﻢ | alqasm | 57.89 |
| ﻗﺎﺳﻢ | qasm | 21.05 |
| ﻗﺎﺳﻮﻡ | qaswm | 15.79 |
| ﻛﺎﺳﻮﻡ | kaswm | 5.26 |
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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 Ghassoum
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