Essomba Surname
Approximately 22,454 people bear this surname
Essomba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 21,562 | 1:963 | 75 |
| Gabon | 354 | 1:5,337 | 981 |
| France | 271 | 1:245,102 | 37,912 |
| Congo | 138 | 1:36,153 | 3,489 |
| Belgium | 21 | 1:547,459 | 51,586 |
| Spain | 16 | 1:2,922,002 | 63,384 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Guinea | 9 | 1:1,314,869 | 1,461 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
Essomba (545) may also be a first name.
Essomba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Essomba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Essomba is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Essomba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 24,100th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 324,554 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Essomba live; 98 percent live in Central Africa and 94 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 360,901st most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 545 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is held by 21,562 people, or 1 in 963. In Cameroon Essomba is most prevalent in: Centre Region, where 75 percent are found, South Region, where 10 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 7 percent are found. Aside from Cameroon this surname is found in 30 countries. It also occurs in Gabon, where 2 percent are found and France, where 1 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 Essomba
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