Grema Surname
Approximately 12,328 people bear this surname
Grema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 9,351 | 1:18,944 | 1,756 |
| Niger | 1,949 | 1:9,847 | 752 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| Cameroon | 466 | 1:44,569 | 5,868 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Mozambique | 9 | 1:3,029,063 | 2,946 |
| Poland | 8 | 1:4,751,094 | 138,864 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 1:3,862,976 | 168,604 |
The alternate forms: Gréma (7) are calculated separately.
Grema (8,784) may also be a first name.
Grema Demographics
Grema Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Grema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Grema Come From? nationality or country of origin
Grema (Hindi: ग्रेमा, Russian: Грема) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as: Gréma. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Grema? popularity and diffusion
It is the 42,308th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 591,138 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Grema live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 76 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 66,785th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 8,784 people.
The last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 9,351 people, or 1 in 18,944. In Nigeria Grema is primarily found in: Borno, where 51 percent live, Yobe, where 38 percent live and Kaduna, where 2 percent live. Not including Nigeria it is found in 22 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 16 percent live and Chad, where 4 percent live.
Grema Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Grema has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Grema last name contracted 46 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Grema Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Grema last name is chiefly Muslim (97%) in Nigeria.
Phonetically Similar Names
Grema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Grema in the Hindi language | ||
| ग्रेमा | grema | - |
| Grema in the Russian language | ||
| Грема | grema | - |
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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 Grema
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