Rahmatou Surname
Approximately 816 people bear this surname
Rahmatou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 536 | 1:38,748 | 5,189 |
| Burkina Faso | 262 | 1:70,046 | 2,651 |
| Niger | 17 | 1:1,128,942 | 24,295 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Rahmatou (4,789) may also be a first name.
Rahmatou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rahmatou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Rahmatou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺭﺣﻤﺔ) is found in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Rahmatou.
How Common Is The Last Name Rahmatou? popularity and diffusion
Rahmatou is the 424,145th most commonly used surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 8,930,816 people. The surname Rahmatou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Rahmatou live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 32 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 98,810th most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 4,789 people.
Rahmatou is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 536 people, or 1 in 38,748. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Adamawa Region, where 46 percent reside, North Region, where 24 percent reside and Far North Region, where 16 percent reside. Aside from Cameroon it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 32 percent reside and Niger, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Rahmatou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rahmatou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺭﺣﻤﺔ | rhmt | 87.5 |
| ﺭﺣﻤﺘﻮ | rhmtw | 12.5 |
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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 Rahmatou
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