Abum Surname
Approximately 628 people bear this surname
Abum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 526 | 1:336,773 | 18,331 |
| Cameroon | 32 | 1:649,033 | 48,340 |
| Indonesia | 18 | 1:7,347,177 | 303,310 |
| Uganda | 16 | 1:2,439,955 | 72,451 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Malaysia | 13 | 1:2,268,787 | 89,138 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Abum (223) may also be a first name.
Abum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Abum Come From? nationality or country of origin
Abum (Hindi: आबुम, Marathi: आबुम, Russian: Абум) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Abum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 518,760th most commonly used surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 11,604,372 people. The last name Abum is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Abum live; 84 percent live in West Africa and 84 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 603,623rd most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 223 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 526 people, or 1 in 336,773. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Benue, where 79 percent are found, Nasarawa, where 5 percent are found and Enugu, where 5 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 5 percent are found and Indonesia, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Abum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Abum in the Marathi language | ||
| आबुम | abuma | - |
| Abum in the Hindi language | ||
| आबुम | abuma | 33.33 |
| अबूम | abuma | 33.33 |
| अबूं | abum | 33.33 |
| Abum in the Russian language | ||
| Абум | abum | - |
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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 Abum
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