Hemaya Surname
Approximately 2,043 people bear this surname
Hemaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 1,983 | 1:46,362 | 4,614 |
| United States | 16 | 1:22,653,683 | 662,747 |
| Philippines | 12 | 1:8,436,519 | 202,133 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Jersey | 5 | 1:19,840 | 3,614 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Hemaya (278) may also be a first name.
Hemaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hemaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hemaya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﻤﺎﻳﺔ, Hindi: हेमाय, Oriya: େହମାୟା) occurs in Egypt more than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hemaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 203,648th most commonly used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 3,567,081 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Hemaya live; 97 percent live in North Africa and 97 percent live in Arabic North Africa. Hemaya is also the 532,586th most frequent first name globally It is held by 278 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Egypt, where it is borne by 1,983 people, or 1 in 46,362. Other than Egypt this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and The Philippines, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hemaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hemaya in the Hindi language | ||
| हेमाय | hemaya | - |
| Hemaya in the Oriya language | ||
| େହମାୟା | ehamaya | - |
| Hemaya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﻤﺎﻳﺔ | hmayt | 50 |
| ﺣﻤﺎﻱ | hmay | 50 |
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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 Hemaya
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