Saloum Surname
Approximately 4,568 people bear this surname
Saloum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 1,484 | 1:11,435 | 561 |
| Jordan | 545 | 1:16,225 | 2,596 |
| Egypt | 519 | 1:177,140 | 13,144 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| Niger | 364 | 1:52,725 | 2,605 |
| Saudi Arabia | 239 | 1:129,104 | 17,726 |
| United States | 176 | 1:2,059,426 | 131,385 |
| Morocco | 170 | 1:202,801 | 34,956 |
| France | 95 | 1:699,187 | 88,446 |
| United Arab Emirates | 84 | 1:109,075 | 9,578 |
| Iraq | 63 | 1:555,899 | 8,855 |
| Brazil | 31 | 1:6,905,624 | 162,221 |
| Mauritania | 30 | 1:136,495 | 7,782 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Venezuela | 29 | 1:1,041,520 | 15,561 |
| Sweden | 28 | 1:351,670 | 24,678 |
| Argentina | 27 | 1:1,583,089 | 86,049 |
| Syria | 18 | 1:1,072,279 | 6,957 |
| Tanzania | 16 | 1:3,308,851 | 50,463 |
| Burkina Faso | 13 | 1:1,411,700 | 12,072 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Lebanon | 8 | 1:704,635 | 14,756 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Yemen | 6 | 1:4,404,216 | 18,907 |
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Saint Lucia | 5 | 1:35,756 | 1,958 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Palestine | 2 | 1:2,274,424 | 17,661 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Saloum (8,285) may also be a first name.
Saloum Demographics
Saloum Political Affiliation
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Saloum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Saloum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Saloum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﺎﻟﻮﻡ) is found most frequently in Mali. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Saloum click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Saloum? popularity and diffusion
The surname Saloum is the 103,018th most common family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 1,595,347 people. The surname Saloum is primarily found in Africa, where 68 percent of Saloum live; 52 percent live in West Africa and 33 percent live in Mande Africa. Saloum is also the 69,491st most frequent given name worldwide, borne by 8,285 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Mali, where it is held by 1,484 people, or 1 in 11,435. Aside from Mali this last name is found in 56 countries. It also occurs in Jordan, where 12 percent live and Egypt, where 11 percent live.
Saloum Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Saloum surname are 16.54% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 69.77% registered to vote for the political party.
Saloum earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 2.36% less than the national average, earning $42,131 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Saloum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Saloum in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﺎﻟﻮﻡ | salwm | 77.42 |
| ﺳﺎﻟﻢ | salm | 17.2 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻢ | alsalm | 2.15 |
| ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻮ | salmw | 1.08 |
| ﺍﻟﺴﺎﻟﻮﻡ | alsalwm | 1.08 |
| ﺻﺎﻟﻮﻡ | salwm | 1.08 |
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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 Saloum
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