Namen Surname
Approximately 1,090 people bear this surname
Namen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 273 | 1:76,077 | 9,412 |
| Argentina | 141 | 1:303,145 | 24,179 |
| United States | 133 | 1:2,725,255 | 163,031 |
| Brazil | 133 | 1:1,609,581 | 53,222 |
| Iran | 95 | 1:808,237 | 40,284 |
| Indonesia | 66 | 1:2,003,776 | 125,554 |
| Papua New Guinea | 57 | 1:143,048 | 19,694 |
| Colombia | 48 | 1:995,293 | 9,207 |
| Liberia | 45 | 1:97,967 | 7,863 |
| Netherlands | 29 | 1:582,316 | 51,332 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| Kazakhstan | 9 | 1:1,964,722 | 89,832 |
| Russia | 9 | 1:16,013,673 | 414,297 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
The alternate forms: Namén (5) are calculated separately.
Namen (452) may also be a first name.
Namen Demographics
Average Namen Salary in
United States
$48,458 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Namen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Namen (Hindi: नामेन, Marathi: नाम, Russian: Намен) is most common in Cameroon. It can also be rendered as a variant: Namén. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Namen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 337,747th most common last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 6,685,822 people. The surname Namen is mostly found in The Americas, where 43 percent of Namen live; 30 percent live in South America and 25 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 402,268th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 452 people.
The last name Namen is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 273 people, or 1 in 76,077. In Cameroon it is most common in: West Region, where 57 percent live, Northwest Region, where 20 percent live and Centre Region, where 9 percent live. Not including Cameroon it exists in 33 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 13 percent live and The United States, where 12 percent live.
Namen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Namen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Namen last name increased 1,478 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Namen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Namen last name are 41.47% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 88.24% being registered with the political party.
The amount Namen earn in different countries varies marginally. In Colombia they earn 12.53% more than the national average, earning $25,546,000 COP per year and in United States they earn 12.3% more than the national average, earning $48,458 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Namen Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Namen in the Marathi language | ||
| नाम | nama | 72.73 |
| नमेन | namena | 9.09 |
| नमीन | namina | 9.09 |
| नामेन | namena | 9.09 |
| Namen in the Hindi language | ||
| नामेन | namena | 50 |
| नामें | namem | 50 |
| Namen in the Russian language | ||
| Намен | namen | - |
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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 Namen
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