Ateme Surname
Approximately 1,272 people bear this surname
Ateme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 440 | 1:47,202 | 6,187 |
| Gabon | 354 | 1:5,337 | 981 |
| Uganda | 247 | 1:158,054 | 13,770 |
| Nigeria | 139 | 1:1,274,408 | 50,756 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| North Macedonia | 2 | 1:1,050,736 | 26,362 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
The alternate forms: Atémé (1) are calculated separately.
Ateme (202) may also be a first name.
Ateme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ateme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ateme is most common in Cameroon. It can occur as: Atémé. For other potential spellings of Ateme click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ateme? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ateme is the 299,135th most widely held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,729,203 people. Ateme occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Ateme live; 67 percent live in Central Africa and 50 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 637,340th most common first name on earth, borne by 202 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 440 people, or 1 in 47,202. In Cameroon Ateme is mostly concentrated in: East Region, where 37 percent live, Centre Region, where 33 percent live and South Region, where 26 percent live. Barring Cameroon this last name is found in 14 countries. It is also found in Gabon, where 28 percent live and Uganda, where 19 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ateme
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