Oumah Surname
Approximately 556 people bear this surname
Oumah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 497 | 1:92,917 | 8,312 |
| Uganda | 36 | 1:1,084,424 | 45,587 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Yemen | 2 | 1:13,212,647 | 40,633 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
Oumah (120) may also be a first name.
Oumah Demographics
Oumah Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Oumah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oumah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oumah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻣﺎﻩ) is borne by more people in Kenya than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Oumah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oumah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 568,231st most frequently held family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,107,097 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Oumah live; 96 percent live in East Africa and 72 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. It is also the 852,104th most frequently occurring given name throughout the world It is held by 120 people.
The last name Oumah is most commonly used in Kenya, where it is carried by 497 people, or 1 in 92,917. In Kenya Oumah is mostly found in: Busia County, where 80 percent are found, Kakamega County, where 17 percent are found and Bungoma County, where 1 percent are found. Besides Kenya this last name exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 6 percent are found and Niger, where 1 percent are found.
Oumah Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oumah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oumah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻣﺎﻩ | amah | 66.67 |
| ﻋﻤﺎﻩ | mah | 33.33 |
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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 Oumah
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