Dossama Surname
Approximately 515 people bear this surname
Dossama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 510 | 1:35,985 | 1,890 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Dossama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dossama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dossama is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dossama? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 602,749th most frequently used surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 14,150,575 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Dossama live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Mande Africa.
Dossama is most common in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 510 people, or 1 in 35,985. In Burkina Faso it is mostly concentrated in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 92 percent are found, Centre Region, where 7 percent are found and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 1 percent are found. Without taking into account Burkina Faso it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 0 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 0 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
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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
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