Oumara Surname
Approximately 15,145 people bear this surname
Oumara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 10,734 | 1:1,788 | 205 |
| Cameroon | 3,203 | 1:6,484 | 793 |
| Chad | 1,155 | 1:11,768 | 1,513 |
| Mauritania | 12 | 1:341,239 | 14,334 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| Benin | 4 | 1:2,583,900 | 73,293 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Comoros | 1 | 1:749,524 | 685 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Oumara (9,036) may also be a first name.
Oumara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oumara Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oumara (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻤﺎﺭ) is more frequently found in Niger than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oumara? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 34,948th most numerous family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 481,185 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Oumara reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 87 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 65,523rd most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 9,036 people.
It is most frequently held in Niger, where it is carried by 10,734 people, or 1 in 1,788. In Niger it is most numerous in: Zinder Region, where 56 percent reside, Diffa Region, where 41 percent reside and Niamey Capital District, where 1 percent reside. Apart from Niger this last name exists in 19 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 21 percent reside and Chad, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oumara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oumara in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻤﺎﺭ | mar | 50 |
| ﻋﻤﺎﺭﻩ | marh | 40 |
| ﻋﻤﺮ | mr | 10 |
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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 Oumara
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