Awoume Surname
Approximately 1,013 people bear this surname
Awoume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 945 | 1:7,670 | 1,744 |
| Cameroon | 64 | 1:324,517 | 29,689 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
The alternate forms: Awoumé (1) are calculated separately.
Awoume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awoume Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Awoume is found most in Togo. It may occur as: Awoumé. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awoume? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 358,044th most commonly held surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 7,194,024 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Awoume live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Awoume is most commonly used in Togo, where it is carried by 945 people, or 1 in 7,670. Without taking into account Togo Awoume is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 6 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Awoume
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