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
Sileymane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻠﻴﻤﺎﻥ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sileymane? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sileymane is the 1,177,228th most commonly occurring last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 36,076,960 people. This last name occurs predominantly 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 commonly used first name on earth, borne by 4,943 people.
The last name Sileymane is most numerous in Mauritania, where it is carried by 134 people, or 1 in 30,559. In Mauritania Sileymane is mostly found in: Brakna Region, where 64 percent live, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 13 percent live and Adrar Region, where 9 percent live. Aside from Mauritania it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 32 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
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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