name Surname
Approximately 9,142 people bear this surname
name Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 1,726 | 1:444,418 | 23,003 |
| Cambodia | 1,164 | 1:13,305 | 1,076 |
| Togo | 1,155 | 1:6,275 | 1,305 |
| Iran | 839 | 1:91,517 | 9,181 |
| Egypt | 458 | 1:200,733 | 14,525 |
| Brazil | 337 | 1:635,235 | 23,555 |
| Mexico | 328 | 1:378,434 | 7,685 |
| Philippines | 313 | 1:323,445 | 44,787 |
| Pakistan | 306 | 1:583,804 | 9,423 |
| Zimbabwe | 283 | 1:54,552 | 8,269 |
| Japan | 259 | 1:493,607 | 14,343 |
| Afghanistan | 177 | 1:181,656 | 3,567 |
| Cameroon | 172 | 1:120,750 | 13,818 |
| Indonesia | 168 | 1:787,198 | 59,965 |
| Senegal | 162 | 1:89,996 | 1,011 |
| Mauritania | 154 | 1:26,590 | 2,261 |
| Colombia | 139 | 1:343,698 | 6,058 |
| Argentina | 126 | 1:339,233 | 26,703 |
| Canada | 124 | 1:297,142 | 27,584 |
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Papua New Guinea | 90 | 1:90,597 | 12,060 |
| Nigeria | 72 | 1:2,460,316 | 81,464 |
| Turkey | 58 | 1:1,341,749 | 54,680 |
| Ivory Coast | 53 | 1:435,306 | 14,482 |
| Venezuela | 47 | 1:642,640 | 11,225 |
| Panama | 44 | 1:88,915 | 3,543 |
| Ecuador | 44 | 1:361,496 | 9,599 |
| Iraq | 37 | 1:946,531 | 12,381 |
| Honduras | 21 | 1:419,831 | 3,124 |
| Malaysia | 19 | 1:1,552,328 | 64,490 |
| Solomon Islands | 18 | 1:32,224 | 6,317 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Lebanon | 13 | 1:433,622 | 11,952 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| United Arab Emirates | 11 | 1:832,934 | 27,512 |
| Spain | 11 | 1:4,250,185 | 75,241 |
| Finland | 6 | 1:916,117 | 41,832 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20 | 1:1,218,768 | 44,985 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 30 | 1:1,673,956 | 87,330 |
The alternate forms: Namé (2) are calculated separately.
name (16,878) may also be a first name.
name Demographics
Average name Salary in
England
£22,188
Per year
Average Salary in
England
£26,976
Per year
name Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name name Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name name (Arabic: آسم, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﺎﻡ, Hindi: नामे, Marathi: नामे, Oriya: ନାେମ) is most common in India. It may appear in the variant forms: Namé. For other potential spellings of name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name name? popularity and diffusion
The last name name is the 55,538th most frequent family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 797,150 people. It is primarily found in Asia, where 56 percent of name live; 33 percent live in South Asia and 19 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 42,741st most commonly used given name throughout the world It is held by 16,878 people.
It is most prevalent in India, where it is held by 1,726 people, or 1 in 444,418. In India name is most common in: Maharashtra, where 85 percent live, Telangana, where 6 percent live and Gujarat, where 4 percent live. Excluding India name exists in 55 countries. It also occurs in Cambodia, where 13 percent live and Togo, where 13 percent live.
name Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the name surname is principally Sunni (91%) in Lebanon.
The amount name earn in different countries varies markedly. In Colombia they earn 29.86% less than the national average, earning $15,922,900 COP per year and in Canada they earn 9.73% more than the national average, earning $54,519 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
name Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| name in the Marathi language | ||
| नामे | name | 99.27 |
| name in the Hindi language | ||
| नामे | name | 98.25 |
| नमे | name | 1.25 |
| नाम | nama | 0.25 |
| नैम | naima | 0.25 |
| name in the Oriya language | ||
| ନାେମ | naema | 75 |
| େନମ | enama | 12.5 |
| ନାଏକ | na'eka | 12.5 |
| name in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﺎﻡ | nam | 70.18 |
| ﻧﺎﻣﻪ | namh | 12.28 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﺎﻣﻪ | alnamh | 5.26 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﺎﻡ | alnam | 5.26 |
| ﺍﻧﺎﻣﻪ | anamh | 1.75 |
| name in the Arabic language | ||
| آسم | asm | - |
| اسم | asm | - |
| نعماء | nma | - |
| اسما | asma | - |
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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 name
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