Ambei Surname
Approximately 304 people bear this surname
Ambei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 183 | 1:113,492 | 13,142 |
| Kenya | 72 | 1:641,388 | 29,005 |
| Papua New Guinea | 40 | 1:203,843 | 28,184 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ambei (333) may also be a first name.
Ambei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ambei Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ambei is most common in Cameroon. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ambei? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ambei is the 885,573rd most widespread family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 23,972,191 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Ambei live; 60 percent live in Central Africa and 60 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 479,726th most commonly occurring forename globally It is held by 333 people.
The last name Ambei is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 113,492. In Cameroon Ambei is most frequent in: Northwest Region, where 67 percent reside, Southwest Region, where 25 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 5 percent reside. Not including Cameroon it exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 24 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 13 percent reside.
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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 Ambei
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