Moriama Surname
Approximately 144 people bear this surname
Moriama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 85 | 1:271,426 | 10,543 |
| Brazil | 48 | 1:4,459,882 | 118,224 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Moriama (530) may also be a first name.
Moriama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Moriama Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Moriama (Bengali: মরিয়মা) is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Moriama click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Moriama? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,471,719th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 50,607,958 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 51 percent of Moriama live; 51 percent live in West Africa and 34 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 366,410th most frequently occurring forename globally, held by 530 people.
Moriama is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 85 people, or 1 in 271,426. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Savanes District, where 47 percent reside, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 32 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 20 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 33 percent reside and Nigeria, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Moriama Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Moriama in the Bengali language | ||
| মরিয়মা | mariyama | - |
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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 Moriama
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