Laawar Surname
Approximately 73 people bear this surname
Laawar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 70 | 1:58,498 | 4,137 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Laawar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Laawar Come From? nationality or country of origin
Laawar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻌﻮﺭ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Laawar? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,220,661st most common family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 99,829,396 people. Laawar occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Laawar reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
This last name is most commonly used in Mauritania, where it is carried by 70 people, or 1 in 58,498. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Assaba Region, where 34 percent are found, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 29 percent are found and Gorgol Region, where 11 percent are found. Other than Mauritania this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 3 percent are found and France, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Laawar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Laawar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻌﻮﺭ | lwr | 96.55 |
| ﻟﻌﻮﺍﺭ | lwar | 3.45 |
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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 Laawar
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