Hamoua Surname
Approximately 154 people bear this surname
Hamoua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 144 | 1:144,230 | 16,009 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Hamoua (474) may also be a first name.
Hamoua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hamoua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hamoua is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Hamoua click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hamoua? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,409,418th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 47,321,727 people. The last name Hamoua occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Hamoua are found; 54 percent are found in Central Africa and 46 percent are found in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. Hamoua is also the 390,891st most frequently used first name world-wide, held by 474 people.
This last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is carried by 144 people, or 1 in 144,230. In Cameroon Hamoua is most frequent in: Adamawa Region, where 55 percent are found, North Region, where 36 percent are found and East Region, where 6 percent are found. Apart from Cameroon Hamoua is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 4 percent are found and France, where 1 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Hamoua
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