Haouba Surname
Approximately 76 people bear this surname
Haouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 74 | 1:55,336 | 3,965 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Haouba (20) may also be a first name.
Haouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Haouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Haouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﻮﺏ) occurs most in Mauritania. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Haouba.
How Common Is The Last Name Haouba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,168,711th most widely held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 95,888,762 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Haouba live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Haouba is also the 2,446,817th most numerous first name in the world, held by 20 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is held by 74 people, or 1 in 55,336. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 39 percent are found, Adrar Region, where 34 percent are found and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 14 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 1 percent are found and Cameroon, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Haouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Haouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﻮﺏ | hwb | 61.9 |
| ﺣﻮﺑﻪ | hwbh | 38.1 |
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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 Haouba
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