Fouma Surname
Approximately 809 people bear this surname
Fouma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 605 | 1:34,329 | 4,624 |
| Niger | 146 | 1:131,452 | 5,019 |
| Congo | 17 | 1:293,476 | 8,994 |
| Solomon Islands | 14 | 1:41,431 | 8,080 |
| Czechia | 13 | 1:817,959 | 70,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Fouma (103) may also be a first name.
Fouma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fouma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Fouma is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Fouma.
How Common Is The Last Name Fouma? popularity and diffusion
The surname Fouma is the 427,014th most prevalent last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 9,008,091 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Fouma live; 76 percent live in Central Africa and 52 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. Fouma is also the 930,172nd most commonly held first name throughout the world, borne by 103 people.
The surname Fouma is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 605 people, or 1 in 34,329. In Cameroon Fouma is most common in: East Region, where 74 percent reside, Centre Region, where 19 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 3 percent reside. Not including Cameroon this last name occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 18 percent reside and The Congo, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Fouma
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