Hemeya Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Hemeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 44 | 1:93,065 | 5,851 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
Hemeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hemeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hemeya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﻤﻲ) is borne by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hemeya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,876,555th most frequently used last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 158,424,911 people. Hemeya is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hemeya live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The last name Hemeya is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is borne by 44 people, or 1 in 93,065. In Mauritania Hemeya is most frequent in: Trarza Region, where 39 percent live, Gorgol Region, where 23 percent live and Hodh Chargui Region, where 20 percent live. Beside Mauritania Hemeya exists in one country. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hemeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hemeya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﻤﻲ | hmy | 57.14 |
| ﺣﻤﻴﻪ | hmyh | 28.57 |
| ﺣﻤﻴﺎ | hmya | 9.52 |
| ﺣﻤﻰ | hmy | 4.76 |
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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 Hemeya
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