Hlama Surname
Approximately 218 people bear this surname
Hlama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 209 | 1:99,374 | 11,757 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hlama (425) may also be a first name.
Hlama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hlama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hlama is most common in Cameroon. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hlama? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,115,011th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 33,429,110 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Hlama are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 87 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 416,660th most numerous first name in the world. It is borne by 425 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 209 people, or 1 in 99,374. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 89 percent are found, North Region, where 10 percent are found and Adamawa Region, where 0 percent are found. Not including Cameroon it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 2 percent are found and South Africa, 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 Hlama
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