Gambu Surname
Approximately 4,452 people bear this surname
Gambu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2,919 | 1:18,560 | 2,345 |
| Papua New Guinea | 483 | 1:16,881 | 1,683 |
| Nigeria | 413 | 1:428,917 | 22,160 |
| France | 345 | 1:192,530 | 29,961 |
| DR Congo | 96 | 1:769,579 | 54,223 |
| Zimbabwe | 61 | 1:253,086 | 27,132 |
| Indonesia | 61 | 1:2,168,020 | 133,281 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Tanzania | 17 | 1:3,114,213 | 50,054 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Solomon Islands | 6 | 1:96,672 | 18,437 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
The alternate forms: Gambů (1) are calculated separately.
Gambu (1,189) may also be a first name.
Gambu Demographics
Gambu Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Gambu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gambu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gambu (Hindi: गम्बू, Marathi: गंबु, Tibetan: སྒོམ་བུ་) is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Gambů. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gambu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gambu is the 105,223rd most frequently held last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,636,915 people. The surname Gambu is mostly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Gambu live; 67 percent live in Southern Africa and 67 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Gambu is also the 229,946th most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 1,189 people.
It is most widely held in South Africa, where it is held by 2,919 people, or 1 in 18,560. In South Africa Gambu is primarily concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 61 percent live, Gauteng, where 23 percent live and Free State, where 10 percent live. Barring South Africa Gambu occurs in 20 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent live and Nigeria, where 9 percent live.
Gambu Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gambu has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Gambu last name declined 89 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gambu Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Gambu last name is principally Muslim (82%) in Nigeria.
Gambu earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 33.17% less than the national average, earning R 158,820 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gambu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gambu in the Marathi language | ||
| गंबु | gambu | 83.33 |
| गांबु | gambu | 16.67 |
| Gambu in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒོམ་བུ་ | gombu | 50 |
| གམ་བུ་ | gambu | 50 |
| Gambu in the Hindi language | ||
| गम्बू | gambu | 50 |
| गम्बु | gambu | 37.5 |
| गंबू | gambu | 12.5 |
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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 Gambu
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