Shaahen Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Shaahen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Shaahen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shaahen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shaahen is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shaahen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,360,413th most frequently used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 809,727,324 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Shaahen live; 78 percent live in West Africa and 78 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 25,306,108. In Nigeria Shaahen is mostly concentrated in: Federal Capital Territory, where 100 percent reside. Barring Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 11 percent reside and Kuwait, where 11 percent reside.
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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 Shaahen
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