Fobiwe Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Fobiwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 38 | 1:546,554 | 42,843 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
Fobiwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fobiwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Fobiwe is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Fobiwe? popularity and diffusion
Fobiwe is the 3,141,416th most commonly occurring family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. Fobiwe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Fobiwe live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 38 people, or 1 in 546,554. In Cameroon Fobiwe is mostly concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 53 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 39 percent are found and Southwest Region, where 5 percent are found. Barring Cameroon this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Germany, where 3 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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