Hemmed Surname
Approximately 752 people bear this surname
Hemmed Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 725 | 1:5,648 | 659 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Hemmed (23) may also be a first name.
Hemmed Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hemmed Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hemmed (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻤﺪ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Hemmed.
How Common Is The Last Name Hemmed? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hemmed is the 451,630th most widely held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,690,886 people. The surname Hemmed is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Hemmed live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Hemmed is also the 2,239,265th most frequent first name globally It is held by 23 people.
Hemmed is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 725 people, or 1 in 5,648. In Mauritania Hemmed is most frequent in: Assaba Region, where 28 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent live and Hodh Chargui Region, where 13 percent live. Outside of Mauritania this last name is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 3 percent live and Sweden, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hemmed Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hemmed in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻤﺪ | hmd | 96.77 |
| ﺣﻤﺪ | hmd | 3.23 |
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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 Hemmed
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