Mhen Surname
Approximately 269 people bear this surname
Mhen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 254 | 1:697,412 | 32,206 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
Mhen (885) may also be a first name.
Mhen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mhen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mhen (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﻬﺎﻥ) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Mhen.
How Common Is The Last Name Mhen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 966,131st most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 27,091,249 people. The last name Mhen is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Mhen reside; 95 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mhen is also the 273,274th most common first name in the world, held by 885 people.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 254 people, or 1 in 697,412. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Benue, where 96 percent are found, Kano, where 4 percent are found and Ekiti, where 0 percent are found. Other than Nigeria Mhen occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in England, where 2 percent are found and Pakistan, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mhen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mhen in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﻬﺎﻥ | amhan | - |
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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 Mhen
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