Lemalem Surname

1,364,059th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 162 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Algeria
Highest density in:
Algeria

Lemalem Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lemalem Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Algeria1561:247,63826,688
Morocco41:8,619,02573,251
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869

Lemalem Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lemalem Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lemalem (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻤﻌﻠﻢ) occurs in Algeria more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Lemalem? popularity and diffusion

The surname Lemalem is the 1,364,059th most prevalent last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 44,984,851 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Lemalem reside; 99 percent reside in North Africa and 99 percent reside in Mahgreb.

The surname Lemalem is most frequent in Algeria, where it is held by 156 people, or 1 in 247,638. In Algeria Lemalem is most prevalent in: Adrar Province, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Algeria it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 2 percent are found and Germany, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Lemaalem93390/
Lemallem93142/
Lemailem931/
Lemaïlem931/
Lemaallem889/
Lemmaalem881/
Lemelem8614,332/
Lamalem86465/
Lomalem86104/
Lamaalem80473/
Lemaylim801/
Lemeïlem801/
Lemailim801/
Lem'eilem751/
Lamalim714/
Lemelim712/
Lemalin712/
Lemolne711/
Lamaluim676/
L'Imailim631/
Lemolin571/
Lemoulin532/
Limalina531/

Lemalem Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Lemalem in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﻟﻤﻌﻠﻢlmlm-

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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 Lemalem
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