Habouwa Surname
Approximately 14 people bear this surname
Habouwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 12 | 1:341,239 | 14,334 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
Habouwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Habouwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Habouwa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﺒﻮﺍ) is most common in Mauritania. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Habouwa.
How Common Is The Last Name Habouwa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Habouwa is the 5,213,395th most widely held surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 520,538,994 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Habouwa reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 86 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
Habouwa is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 341,239. In Mauritania Habouwa is mostly found in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 83 percent live, Assaba Region, where 8 percent live and Inchiri Region, where 8 percent live. Outside of Mauritania Habouwa exists in one country. It is also common in Niger, where 14 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Habouwa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Habouwa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﺒﻮﺍ | hbwa | - |
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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 Habouwa
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