Dembet Surname
Approximately 138 people bear this surname
Dembet Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 120 | 1:41,576 | 3,928 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Dembet (16) may also be a first name.
Dembet Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dembet Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dembet (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻣﺒﺖ) is carried by more people in The Congo than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Dembet click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dembet? popularity and diffusion
Dembet is the 1,511,557th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 52,808,304 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Dembet live; 87 percent live in Central Africa and 87 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Dembet is also the 2,786,762nd most common first name internationally. It is borne by 16 people.
The surname is most commonly used in The Congo, where it is held by 120 people, or 1 in 41,576. In The Congo Dembet is mostly concentrated in: Pointe-Noire Department, where 96 percent reside, Brazzaville Department, where 3 percent reside and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent reside. Excluding The Congo this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dembet Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dembet in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﻣﺒﺖ | dmbt | 83.33 |
| ﺟﻤﺒﺖ | jmbt | 16.67 |
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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 Dembet
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