Sawané Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Sawané Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 49 | 1:83,569 | 5,424 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
The alternate forms: Sawane (4,608) are calculated separately.
Sawané Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sawané Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sawané is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant: Sawane. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sawané? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sawané is the 2,746,821st most common last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sawané reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
It is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 49 people, or 1 in 83,569. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Guidimagha Region, where 96 percent are found and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 2 percent are found. Beside Mauritania this surname occurs in one country. It also occurs in Mali, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Sawané
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