Tamahah Surname
Approximately 12 people bear this surname
Tamahah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Tamahah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tamahah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tamahah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻤﻬﺎﻩ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tamahah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,587,209th most commonly used surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 607,295,493 people. The last name Tamahah occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tamahah live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 372,260. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Assaba Region, where 100 percent live. Barring Mauritania Tamahah occurs in one country. It is also common in Niger, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tamahah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tamahah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻤﻬﺎﻩ | tmhah | - |
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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 Tamahah
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