Hamahou Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Hamahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Hamahou (101) may also be a first name.
Hamahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hamahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hamahou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﻤﺎﻩ) is borne by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Hamahou.
How Common Is The Last Name Hamahou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,968,613th most widely held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The surname Hamahou is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hamahou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Hamahou is also the 940,641st most frequent first name world-wide. It is borne by 101 people.
The surname Hamahou is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 3 people, or 1 in 1,364,954. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 33 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 33 percent live and Trarza Region, where 33 percent live. Excluding Mauritania this last name is found in one country. It is also common in Niger, where 25 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hamahou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hamahou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﻤﺎﻩ | hmah | 88.37 |
| ﺍﺣﻤﺎﻩ | ahmah | 11.63 |
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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 Hamahou
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