Nahna Surname
Approximately 149 people bear this surname
Nahna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 98 | 1:41,784 | 3,193 |
| New Zealand | 32 | 1:141,510 | 16,640 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Nahna (270) may also be a first name.
Nahna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nahna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nahna (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﺤﻦ, Hindi: नहना) is most common in Mauritania. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nahna? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,441,361st most frequently held surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 48,909,704 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 66 percent of Nahna live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 541,116th most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 270 people.
Nahna is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 98 people, or 1 in 41,784. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Trarza Region, where 31 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 23 percent live and Assaba Region, where 16 percent live. Other than Mauritania it exists in 8 countries. It is also common in New Zealand, where 21 percent live and India, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nahna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nahna in the Hindi language | ||
| नहना | nahana | 87.5 |
| नह्ना | nahna | 12.5 |
| Nahna in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﺤﻦ | nhn | 74.19 |
| ﻧﺤﻨﺎ | nhna | 16.13 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﺤﻨﻪ | alnhnh | 6.45 |
| ﺍﻧﺤﻦ | anhn | 3.23 |
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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 Nahna
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