Moulane Surname
Approximately 764 people bear this surname
Moulane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 397 | 1:10,315 | 1,066 |
| Burkina Faso | 341 | 1:53,818 | 2,325 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
The alternate forms: Moulané (2) are calculated separately.
Moulane (24) may also be a first name.
Moulane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Moulane Come From? nationality or country of origin
Moulane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻮﻻﻥ) occurs in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Moulané. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Moulane? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 446,308th most commonly held last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 9,538,673 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Moulane live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 2,187,323rd most commonly used first name internationally. It is borne by 24 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 397 people, or 1 in 10,315. In Mauritania Moulane is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 22 percent reside, Brakna Region, where 18 percent reside and Assaba Region, where 14 percent reside. Not including Mauritania this last name is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 45 percent reside and Cameroon, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Moulane Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Moulane in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻮﻻﻥ | mwlan | 58.59 |
| ﻣﻼﻥ | mlan | 21.88 |
| ﻣﻮﻻﻧﺎ | mwlana | 12.5 |
| ﻣﻮﻻﻧﻪ | mwlanh | 4.69 |
| ﻣﻼﻧﻪ | mlanh | 1.56 |
| ﻣﻼﻧﺎ | mlana | 0.78 |
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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 Moulane
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