Belamo Surname
Approximately 383 people bear this surname
Belamo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 298 | 1:594,439 | 28,543 |
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Belamo (355) may also be a first name.
Belamo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Belamo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Belamo is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Belamo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 749,861st most numerous family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 19,027,535 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Belamo reside; 78 percent reside in West Africa and 78 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 462,374th most commonly used first name at a global level, borne by 355 people.
It is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 298 people, or 1 in 594,439. In Nigeria Belamo is most prevalent in: Benue, where 80 percent live, Bauchi, where 7 percent live and Taraba, where 5 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 16 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 2 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 Belamo
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