N'Dame Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
N'Dame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 9 | 1:1,148,400 | 50,768 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
N'Dame (14) may also be a first name.
N'Dame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name N'Dame Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname N'Dame (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻧﺪﺍﻣﻪ) is borne by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name N'Dame? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,427,875th most common family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of N'Dame live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,024,661st most numerous first name throughout the world. It is borne by 14 people.
It is most frequently used in Benin, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 1,148,400. In Benin N'Dame is most frequent in: Atakora Department, where 89 percent live and Borgou Department, where 11 percent live. Not including Benin this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 45 percent live and Mauritania, where 10 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
N'Dame Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| N'Dame in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻧﺪﺍﻣﻪ | andamh | 33.33 |
| ﺍﻧﺪﺍﻣﺎ | andama | 33.33 |
| ﺃﻧﺠﺎﻡ | anjam | 33.33 |
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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'Dame
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