Gombou Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Gombou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 17 | 1:1,221,710 | 73,195 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Gombou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gombou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gombou is most common in Cameroon. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gombou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,100,440th most widely held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name Gombou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 63 percent of Gombou live; 40 percent live in Central Africa and 38 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Gombou is most common in Cameroon, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 1,221,710. In Cameroon Gombou is most frequent in: West Region, where 76 percent are found, East Region, where 12 percent are found and Adamawa Region, where 6 percent are found. Barring Cameroon Gombou occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Malaysia, where 38 percent are found and Benin, where 13 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gombou
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