Hamizu Surname
Approximately 275 people bear this surname
Hamizu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 237 | 1:747,438 | 33,954 |
| Indonesia | 33 | 1:4,007,551 | 204,828 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
Hamizu (152) may also be a first name.
Hamizu Demographics
Hamizu Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Hamizu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hamizu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hamizu is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hamizu? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 950,707th most common surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 26,500,167 people. The last name Hamizu is mostly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Hamizu live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Hamizu is also the 746,252nd most commonly occurring first name worldwide, borne by 152 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 237 people, or 1 in 747,438. In Nigeria Hamizu is primarily concentrated in: Borno, where 61 percent are found, Zamfara, where 12 percent are found and Nasarawa, where 4 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 12 percent are found and Malaysia, where 2 percent are found.
Hamizu Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is principally Muslim (93%) in Nigeria.
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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 Hamizu
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