Names distinctive to Yemen

The list of names unique to the Republic of Yemen*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. صنعانيه 53% 1.

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. بكيل 46% 1.
2. غمدان 65% 2.
3. حمير 38% 3.
4. رهيب 100% 7.
5. مجيب 47% 5.
6. عبدالرقيب 28% 4.
7. ابورعد 29% 6.
8. عاهد 53% 10.
9. ابوكهلان 100% 17.
10. محمدحمود 100% 18.
11. ابوجهاد 100% 19.
12. كهلان 55% 13.
13. ردفان 35% 9.
14. ابوجبريل 100% 22.
15. أصيل 31% 8.
16. ابوامجد 100% 23.
17. ابوبشار 49% 15.
18. ابواصيل 32% 12.
19. مرسل 100% 25.
20. ابوعاصم 100% 26.
21. ريدان 49% 16.
22. صامد 100% 30.
23. محمدحميد 100% 30.
24. احمدصالح 52% 21.
25. ابوصخر 100% 33.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. غالب 86% 3.
2. قاسم 39% 1.
3. العريقي 99% 8.
4. الوصابي 94% 9.
5. الفقيه 85% 10.
6. الشميري 93% 11.
7. القباطي 99% 13.
8. مقبل 89% 15.
9. تجارب 100% 19.
10. سالم 27% 2.
11. المطري 95% 18.
12. ناجي 55% 5.
13. الشرعبي 87% 16.
14. ثابت 69% 12.
15. سيف 47% 6.
16. فارع 99% 26.
17. الخولاني 97% 25.
18. المقطري 99% 28.
19. البعداني 97% 27.
20. العامري 43% 7.
21. الحمادي 86% 23.
22. القدسي 96% 29.
23. الحرازي 97% 31.
24. العبسي 84% 24.
25. الدبعي 95% 34.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Jordan 41%
Palestine, State of 39%
Saudi Arabia 39%
Kuwait 24%
Egypt 24%
Sudan (the) 23%
Libya 23%
Iraq 18%
Oman 17%

*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).