Bamele Surname
Approximately 301 people bear this surname
Bamele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 144 | 1:160,217 | 7,355 |
| Nigeria | 97 | 1:1,826,214 | 65,886 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bamele (55) may also be a first name.
Bamele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bamele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bamele is most common in The Ivory Coast. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bamele? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bamele is the 891,661st most commonly occurring last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 24,211,116 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 84 percent of Bamele live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bamele is also the 1,336,256th most frequent given name throughout the world. It is borne by 55 people.
It is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 144 people, or 1 in 160,217. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Comoé District, where 27 percent reside, Vallée du Bandama District, where 25 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 19 percent reside. Besides The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 32 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 16 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 Bamele
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