Sambaly Surname

1,894,523rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 96 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

Sambaly Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sambaly Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Mauritania931:44,0313,308
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679

Sambaly (2,637) may also be a first name.

Sambaly Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sambaly Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Sambaly (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻟﻲ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Sambaly.

How Common Is The Last Name Sambaly? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,894,523rd most prevalent last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 75,911,937 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sambaly are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Sambaly is also the 143,013th most commonly used forename world-wide, held by 2,637 people.

The surname Sambaly is most common in Mauritania, where it is held by 93 people, or 1 in 44,031. In Mauritania Sambaly is most frequent in: Brakna Region, where 73 percent are found, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 19 percent are found and Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 2 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sambaly Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Sambaly in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻟﻲsmbaly74.36
ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻟﻰsmbaly17.95
ﺻﻤﺒﻠﻲsmbly5.13
ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻝsmbal2.56

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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 Sambaly
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