Gambou Surname
Approximately 2,879 people bear this surname
Gambou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 2,506 | 1:1,991 | 327 |
| Ivory Coast | 125 | 1:184,570 | 8,133 |
| Cameroon | 111 | 1:187,109 | 19,561 |
| Niger | 81 | 1:236,938 | 7,651 |
| Benin | 15 | 1:689,040 | 39,432 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Senegal | 8 | 1:1,822,418 | 4,361 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Gâmbou (1) are calculated separately.
Gambou (167) may also be a first name.
Gambou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gambou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gambou occurs more in The Congo more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Gâmbou. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gambou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 152,799th most commonly occurring last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 2,531,277 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Gambou reside; 90 percent reside in Central Africa and 90 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 708,111th most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 167 people.
This last name is most prevalent in The Congo, where it is carried by 2,506 people, or 1 in 1,991. In The Congo it is most common in: Brazzaville Department, where 44 percent live, Plateaux Department, where 21 percent live and Pointe-Noire Department, where 21 percent live. Beside The Congo this surname occurs in 18 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
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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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