Bakonde Surname

3,543,123rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 31 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cameroon
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Bakonde Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bakonde Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cameroon181:1,153,83770,128
DR Congo41:18,469,892182,906
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Chad11:13,592,19913,092
Niger11:19,192,017110,060
Togo11:7,247,76812,049

Bakonde (31) may also be a first name.

Bakonde Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bakonde Come From? nationality or country of origin

Bakonde is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Bakonde? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,543,123rd most frequent last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 87 percent of Bakonde are found; 71 percent are found in Central Africa and 71 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,874,099th most widely held forename throughout the world, held by 31 people.

The surname Bakonde is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 1,153,837. In Cameroon Bakonde is most frequent in: Littoral Region, where 94 percent live and Centre Region, where 6 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 13 percent live and Indonesia, where 13 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
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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 Bakonde
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