Vatema Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Vatema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Vatema (766) may also be a first name.
Vatema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vatema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Vatema (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﺎﻃﻢ) has its highest incidence in India. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Vatema? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,649,889th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Vatema reside; 50 percent reside in South Asia and 50 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 296,648th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 766 people.
This last name is most numerous in India, where it is carried by 9 people, or 1 in 85,229,487. In India it is most numerous in: Tamil Nadu, where 100 percent live. Apart from India it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 44 percent live and Mauritania, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vatema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vatema in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﺎﻃﻢ | fatm | 85.28 |
| ﻓﺎﻃﻤﻪ | fatmh | 11.68 |
| ﻓﺎﻃﻤﺔ | fatmt | 1.52 |
| ﻓﺎﻃﻴﻢ | fatym | 0.51 |
| ﺍﻓﻄﻴﺔ | aftyt | 0.51 |
| ﺍﻓﻴﻄﻤﻪ | afytmh | 0.51 |
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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 Vatema
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