Samailah Surname
Approximately 170 people bear this surname
Samailah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 152 | 1:1,165,413 | 47,471 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Yemen | 4 | 1:6,606,324 | 25,896 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
Samailah (189) may also be a first name.
Samailah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samailah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Samailah occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Samailah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,321,499th most widely held surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 42,867,917 people. Samailah occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Samailah reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 89 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 661,310th most frequently used first name internationally, held by 189 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 152 people, or 1 in 1,165,413. In Nigeria Samailah is primarily concentrated in: Sokoto, where 76 percent live, Zamfara, where 7 percent live and Yobe, where 3 percent live. Beside Nigeria it is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 7 percent live and Yemen, where 2 percent live.
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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 Samailah
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