Dampo Surname

1,025,894th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 246 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Dampo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dampo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1291:1,373,20053,624
Philippines671:1,511,018105,084
Malaysia191:1,552,32864,490
Ivory Coast141:1,647,94532,915
Indonesia81:16,531,149488,268
Benin71:1,476,51557,381
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

Dampo (92) may also be a first name.

Dampo Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Dampo Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Dampo (Hindi: डम्पो, Tibetan: སྡམས་པོ།) is found most in Nigeria. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Dampo? popularity and diffusion

Dampo is the 1,025,894th most frequently held surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 29,624,170 people. The surname Dampo is primarily found in Africa, where 56 percent of Dampo live; 56 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Dampo is also the 992,070th most commonly occurring forename at a global level, borne by 92 people.

It is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 129 people, or 1 in 1,373,200. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Plateau, where 75 percent live, Kaduna, where 18 percent live and Lagos, where 5 percent live. Other than Nigeria it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 27 percent live and Malaysia, where 8 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dampho914/
Dampos914/
Daimpo913/
Dampou912/
Daampo912/
Dampot911/
Dampoi911/
Deampo911/
Dampoux8324/
Dasempo834/
Dampott831/
Dampa80763/
Dempo80418/
Dompo8054/
Danpo8019/
Dampha738,083/
Dampas73501/
Danpho7363/
Dampat7357/
Dampah7338/
Dompou7330/
Dompot7313/
Dhempo7310/
Dampau739/
Danpos737/
Dhampa735/
Dompho731/
Dompoh731/
Dampaz731/
Dampad731/
Dabo67148,045/
Davo676,892/
Doumpoa6730/
Doumpos6728/
Dampash676/
Doumpou675/
Damphat675/
Damphad673/
Danposh672/
Dampahe671/

Dampo Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dampo in the Tibetan language
སྡམས་པོ།dampo-
Dampo in the Hindi language
डम्पोdampo66.67
दम्पोdampo33.33

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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 Dampo
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