Namouna Surname
Approximately 31 people bear this surname
Namouna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 22 | 1:872,364 | 19,806 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Namouna (54) may also be a first name.
Namouna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namouna Come From? nationality or country of origin
Namouna (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻨﺎﻣﻨﻪ) is borne by more people in Niger than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Namouna? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,543,123rd most common family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Namouna are found; 87 percent are found in West Africa and 71 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,350,955th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 54 people.
The last name Namouna is most frequently used in Niger, where it is borne by 22 people, or 1 in 872,364. In Niger Namouna is most common in: Dosso Region, where 45 percent are found, Tillabéri Region, where 45 percent are found and Niamey Capital District, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Niger this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 10 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Namouna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Namouna in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻨﺎﻣﻨﻪ | alnamnh | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﺎﻣﻦ | alnamn | 50 |
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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 Namouna
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