Hamedou Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Hamedou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 31 | 1:132,092 | 7,581 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Comoros | 1 | 1:749,524 | 685 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hamedou (234) may also be a first name.
Hamedou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hamedou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hamedou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﻤﺪﻭ) occurs most in Mauritania. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hamedou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,530,696th most frequent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 125,647,343 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Hamedou live; 84 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 585,759th most common first name in the world. It is borne by 234 people.
The last name Hamedou is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 31 people, or 1 in 132,092. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Tagant Region, where 45 percent live, Assaba Region, where 23 percent live and Hodh Chargui Region, where 10 percent live. Outside of Mauritania it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 26 percent live and Cameroon, where 10 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hamedou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hamedou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﻤﺪﻭ | hmdw | 72.09 |
| ﺣﺎﻣﺪﻭ | hamdw | 9.3 |
| ﻫﻤﺪﻭ | hmdw | 6.98 |
| ﻫﻤﺎﺩﻭ | hmadw | 2.33 |
| ﺣﺎﻣﺖ | hamt | 2.33 |
| ﻫﺎﻣﺪﻭ | hamdw | 2.33 |
| ﺍﺣﻤﺪﻭ | ahmdw | 2.33 |
| ﺣﻴﻤﺪﻭ | hymdw | 2.33 |
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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 Hamedou
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