Names distinctive to Niger (the)

The list of names unique to the Republic of the Niger*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Adamou 29% 1.
2. Soumana 98% 9.
3. Moumouni 95% 8.
4. Acipm 68% 7.
5. Aboubacar 36% 2.
6. Mamane 59% 6.
7. Harouna 30% 3.
8. Salifou 91% 10.
9. Laouali 100% 11.
10. Mahaman 99% 13.
11. Souley 32% 4.
12. Chaibou 100% 15.
13. Ousseini 99% 16.
14. Niger 71% 14.
15. Mounkaila 99% 17.
16. Yacouba 22% 5.
17. Salissou 100% 19.
18. Soumaila 73% 18.
19. Bachir 20% 11.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Benin 16%
Togo 16%
Ghana 16%
Senegal 14%
Côte d'Ivoire 13%
Burkina Faso 13%
Mali 13%
Gambia (the) 12%
Cameroon 12%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).