Sambaly Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Sambaly Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 93 | 1:44,031 | 3,308 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
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
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sambaly in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻟﻲ | smbaly | 74.36 |
| ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻟﻰ | smbaly | 17.95 |
| ﺻﻤﺒﻠﻲ | smbly | 5.13 |
| ﺻﻤﺒﺎﻝ | smbal | 2.56 |
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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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