N'Gouna Surname
Approximately 144 people bear this surname
N'Gouna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 133 | 1:30,788 | 2,540 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
N'Gouna (11) may also be a first name.
N'Gouna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name N'Gouna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name N'Gouna (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻧﻜﻮﻧﻪ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name N'Gouna? popularity and diffusion
The surname N'Gouna is the 1,471,719th most frequent family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 50,607,958 people. The last name N'Gouna is predominantly found in Africa, where 92 percent of N'Gouna live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Senegambia Africa. N'Gouna is also the 3,487,849th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 11 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Mauritania, where it is carried by 133 people, or 1 in 30,788. In Mauritania N'Gouna is mostly concentrated in: Trarza Region, where 68 percent live, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 20 percent live and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 6 percent live. Excluding Mauritania it is found in one country. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
N'Gouna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| N'Gouna in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻧﻜﻮﻧﻪ | ankwnh | 64.15 |
| ﺍﻧﻜﻮﻧﻪ | ankwnh | 26.42 |
| ﺍﻧﻜﻮﻥ | ankwn | 5.66 |
| ﺃﻧﻜﻮﻧﺎ | ankwna | 1.89 |
| ﺍﻧﻜﻮﻧﺎ | ankwna | 1.89 |
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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 N'Gouna
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