Mouctar Surname
Approximately 2,459 people bear this surname
Mouctar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 1,541 | 1:8,820 | 1,197 |
| Niger | 705 | 1:27,223 | 1,577 |
| Cameroon | 109 | 1:190,542 | 19,833 |
| Ivory Coast | 69 | 1:334,366 | 12,150 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| Mauritania | 8 | 1:511,858 | 18,608 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mouctar (21,390) may also be a first name.
Mouctar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mouctar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mouctar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ) occurs in Chad more than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mouctar? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 174,470th most frequently held surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 2,963,622 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Mouctar live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Chadic Africa. Mouctar is also the 35,956th most frequently held given name in the world, borne by 21,390 people.
The surname is most numerous in Chad, where it is held by 1,541 people, or 1 in 8,820. Apart from Chad this last name occurs in 16 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 29 percent reside and Cameroon, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mouctar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mouctar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺘﺎﺭ | almkhtar | 63.64 |
| ﻣﺨﺘﺎﺭ | mkhtar | 27.27 |
| ﺍﻟﻤﺨﻄﺎﺭ | almkhtar | 9.09 |
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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 Mouctar
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