Balube Surname
Approximately 95 people bear this surname
Balube Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 85 | 1:2,084,032 | 72,421 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
Balube (32) may also be a first name.
Balube Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Balube Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Balube is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Balube.
How Common Is The Last Name Balube? popularity and diffusion
The last name Balube is the 1,907,068th most prevalent surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 76,711,010 people. The last name Balube is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Balube live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 89 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Balube is also the 1,840,253rd most common first name world-wide, held by 32 people.
The surname Balube is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 85 people, or 1 in 2,084,032. In Nigeria Balube is most common in: Yobe, where 64 percent live, Borno, where 35 percent live and Rivers, where 1 percent live. Beside Nigeria it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 6 percent live and The DR Congo, where 4 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 Balube
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