Bassounga Surname
Approximately 230 people bear this surname
Bassounga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 202 | 1:24,698 | 2,694 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
Bassounga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bassounga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bassounga has its highest incidence in The Congo. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bassounga? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,076,574th most widely held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 31,684,982 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Bassounga reside; 93 percent reside in Central Africa and 93 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most widespread in The Congo, where it is borne by 202 people, or 1 in 24,698. In The Congo Bassounga is most prevalent in: Pointe-Noire Department, where 57 percent live, Brazzaville Department, where 34 percent live and Bouenza Department, where 4 percent live. Apart from The Congo it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in France, where 7 percent live and Cameroon, where 6 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 Bassounga
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