Sileymane Surname
Approximately 202 people bear this surname
Sileymane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 134 | 1:30,559 | 2,519 |
| Niger | 65 | 1:295,262 | 8,917 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
Sileymane (4,943) may also be a first name.
Sileymane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sileymane Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sileymane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ) occurs in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Sileymane click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sileymane? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,177,228th most frequent surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 36,076,960 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sileymane live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 96,910th most numerous first name internationally, held by 4,943 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 134 people, or 1 in 30,559. In Mauritania Sileymane is mostly concentrated in: Brakna Region, where 64 percent are found, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 13 percent are found and Adrar Region, where 9 percent are found. Besides Mauritania this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 32 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sileymane Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sileymane in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ | slyman | 71.43 |
| ﺍﺳﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ | aslyman | 21.43 |
| ﺳﻴﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ | sylyman | 4.02 |
| ﺃﺳﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ | aslyman | 1.34 |
| ﺳﻴﻠﻤﺎﻥ | sylman | 0.45 |
| ﺍﺳﻠﻤﺎﻥ | aslman | 0.45 |
| ﺳﻮﻟﻴﻤﺎﻥ | swlyman | 0.45 |
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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 Sileymane
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