Kourama Surname
Approximately 302 people bear this surname
Kourama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 204 | 1:101,809 | 12,019 |
| Niger | 41 | 1:468,098 | 12,501 |
| Greece | 26 | 1:426,146 | 56,152 |
| Mauritania | 25 | 1:163,795 | 8,806 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kourama (526) may also be a first name.
Kourama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kourama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kourama (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﺍﻡ) is found most in Cameroon. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Kourama.
How Common Is The Last Name Kourama? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kourama is the 889,654th most numerous last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 24,130,947 people. The surname Kourama occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Kourama reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 64 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 367,904th most widespread first name world-wide. It is borne by 526 people.
Kourama is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 204 people, or 1 in 101,809. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Far North Region, where 100 percent are found and East Region, where 0 percent are found. Besides Cameroon Kourama occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 14 percent are found and Greece, where 9 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kourama Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kourama in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﺍﻡ | kram | 50 |
| ﻛﻮﺭﺍﻣﻪ | kwramh | 33.33 |
| ﻛﺮﺍﻣﻪ | kramh | 16.67 |
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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 Kourama
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