Omama Surname
Approximately 522 people bear this surname
Omama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 275 | 1:644,155 | 30,300 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Philippines | 37 | 1:2,736,168 | 135,784 |
| India | 20 | 1:38,353,269 | 431,471 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Omama (3,281) may also be a first name.
Omama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Omama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Omama (Arabic: أميما, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻣﺎﻣﻪ, Hindi: ओमामा, Russian: Омама) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Omama? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 596,518th most frequently used family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 13,960,816 people. The surname Omama occurs predominantly in Africa, where 86 percent of Omama are found; 53 percent are found in West Africa and 53 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 124,936th most commonly occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 3,281 people.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 275 people, or 1 in 644,155. In Nigeria Omama is most common in: Cross River, where 41 percent are found, Nasarawa, where 23 percent are found and Lagos, where 8 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name is found in 14 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 29 percent are found and The Philippines, where 7 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Omama Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Omama in the Hindi language | ||
| ओमामा | omama | 94.74 |
| ओमाम | omama | 2.63 |
| ऊमामा | umama | 2.63 |
| Omama in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻣﺎﻣﻪ | amamh | 80 |
| ﺍﻣﺎﻣﻪ | amamh | 20 |
| Omama in the Russian language | ||
| Омама | omama | - |
| Omama in the Arabic language | ||
| أميما | amyma | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Omama
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