Coumba Surname
Approximately 527 people bear this surname
Coumba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 317 | 1:12,918 | 1,250 |
| Ivory Coast | 101 | 1:228,428 | 9,360 |
| France | 59 | 1:1,125,809 | 120,603 |
| Senegal | 28 | 1:520,691 | 2,209 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Coumba (231,067) may also be a first name.
Coumba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Coumba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Coumba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻤﺐ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Coumba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 591,720th most numerous last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 13,828,360 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 74 percent of Coumba live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 65 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 4,541st most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 231,067 people.
The last name Coumba is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 317 people, or 1 in 12,918. In Mauritania Coumba is mostly concentrated in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 17 percent live, Adrar Region, where 16 percent live and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 12 percent live. Without taking into account Mauritania this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 19 percent live and France, where 11 percent live.
Coumba Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Coumba has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Coumba surname decreased 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Coumba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Coumba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻤﺐ | kmb | 83.2 |
| ﻛﻤﺒﺎ | kmba | 7.84 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﺒﺎ | kwmba | 4.11 |
| ﻛﻤﺒﻪ | kmbh | 2.68 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﺐ | kwmb | 1.75 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻪ | kwmbh | 0.14 |
| ﻛﻤﺒﺔ | kmbt | 0.05 |
| ﻛﻤﺒﻰ | kmby | 0.02 |
| ﻗﻮﻣﺒﺎ | qwmba | 0.02 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻲ | kwmby | 0.02 |
| ﻛﻨﺒﻪ | knbh | 0.02 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻰ | kwmby | 0.02 |
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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 Coumba
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