Arama is used as a family name or surname in Mali. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Arama
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Mali
Meaning: The name is rare in Spain, where it refers to one who is from Arama, in the Province of Guipúzcoa. The meaning of the name is obscure. The family name is or was more common in North Africa, usually worn by Sephardic Jews. It may have the same origin (that is the name of a rabbi of the fifteenth century, died in Naples, who had Zamora), but mostly we think of a derivative of Aram biblical personal name (son of Shem in Genesis) and ancient name of an area corresponding roughly to Syria, where does the word "Aramaic". The word "Aram" in Syriac means "high, a prominent".

How popular is Arama?

Arama is common in Mali.

Arama is ranked 20769 on our list.

There are about 102 people in US who wears Arama as surname and ranked 158432 in US Census Bureau. In 2010 census, the last name was found in around 0 per 1 million. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010
White 64.71
Hispanic or Latino 25.49
Black 8.82
Arama is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Mali which signifies that it is originated from Mali. Around 24954 people have been found who wears Arama as their family name. Arama is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
7,022 Senegal7
122,390 Belarus4
19,452 Malaysia3
90,215 Germany3
19,093 Finland2
54,641 Sweden2
40,256 Mexico2
14,521 Portugal2
4,413 Democratic Republic of The Congo2
123,175 Tanzania1
174,544 Czech Republic1
120,357 Argentina1
6,820 Angola1
169,904 Brazil1
53,033 Nigeria1
49,101 Denmark1
38,830 Morocco1
7,941 Guatemala1
8,859 Iraq1
12,745 Luxembourg1
16,073 Latvia1
81,201 Switzerland1
107,212 South Africa1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
45,070 Australia45
13,429 New Zealand45
16,483 Chile45
162,220 Indonesia44
69,202 Netherlands18
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
13,010 Venezuela100
64,220 Ukraine73
56,298 England65
54,886 Canada55
Countries with hundreds of Arama:
1,625 Israel695
8,131 Kenya628
22,264 France441
17,557 Turkey349
83,232 India286
69,233 Russia188
11,417 Greece172
56,111 Italy123
162,419 United States122
26,287 Spain101
Countries with thousands of Arama:
436 Burkina Faso5,055
1,045 Romania2,422
3,804 Algeria1,785
279 Moldova1,247
Countries with ten thousands of Arama:
143 Mali10,809
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Comments

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Setsuko Steiger
Arama is a family of Basque origin name for a river this is originally a nickname characteristic of a house, became the owner name.

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