Bumah Surname
Approximately 206 people bear this surname
Bumah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 151 | 1:137,543 | 15,369 |
| Liberia | 35 | 1:125,958 | 9,506 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Bumah (158) may also be a first name.
Bumah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bumah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bumah has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Bumah.
How Common Is The Last Name Bumah? popularity and diffusion
Bumah is the 1,159,732nd most prevalent family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 35,376,436 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Bumah reside; 73 percent reside in Central Africa and 73 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 730,165th most frequently occurring forename globally It is held by 158 people.
The surname Bumah is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 151 people, or 1 in 137,543. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Northwest Region, where 46 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 29 percent are found and Centre Region, where 16 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 17 percent are found and Nigeria, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Bumah
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