Roumaye Surname
Approximately 73 people bear this surname
Roumaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 70 | 1:58,498 | 4,137 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
Roumaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Roumaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Roumaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺭﻭﻣﺎﻱ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or 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 Roumaye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,220,661st most frequently occurring last name globally It is held by around 1 in 99,829,396 people. Roumaye is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Roumaye reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
The last name is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 70 people, or 1 in 58,498. In Mauritania Roumaye is most numerous in: Gorgol Region, where 87 percent are found, Brakna Region, where 10 percent are found and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 1 percent are found. Barring Mauritania it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Niger, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Roumaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Roumaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺭﻭﻣﺎﻱ | arwmay | 47.62 |
| ﺭﻭﻣﺎﻱ | rwmay | 19.05 |
| ﺃﺭﻭﻣﺎﻱ | arwmay | 14.29 |
| ﺍﺭﻣﺎﻱ | armay | 4.76 |
| ﺁﺭﻭﻣﺎﻱ | arwmay | 4.76 |
| ﺭﻣﺎﻱ | rmay | 4.76 |
| ﺁﺭﻭﻣﺎﻯ | arwmay | 4.76 |
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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 Roumaye
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