Banbara Surname
Approximately 151 people bear this surname
Banbara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 127 | 1:163,536 | 17,652 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Banbara (17) may also be a first name.
Banbara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Banbara Come From? nationality or country of origin
Banbara (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻤﺒﺎﺭﻩ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Banbara click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Banbara? popularity and diffusion
The surname Banbara is the 1,428,594th most common surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 48,261,893 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Banbara live; 56 percent live in Central Africa and 32 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. Banbara is also the 2,694,839th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 17 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 127 people, or 1 in 163,536. In Cameroon Banbara is mostly found in: Far North Region, where 65 percent reside, Centre Region, where 19 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 9 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon it occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 5 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Banbara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Banbara in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻤﺒﺎﺭﻩ | bmbarh | 66.67 |
| ﺑﻨﺒﺎﺭ | bnbar | 33.33 |
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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 Banbara
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