Gumbala Surname

798,040th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 352 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Gumbala Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gumbala Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi2611:65,5908,693
DR Congo681:1,086,46468,260
Zimbabwe81:1,929,78092,581
Indonesia71:18,892,742520,071
Tanzania41:13,235,40384,310
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885

Gumbala (12) may also be a first name.

Gumbala Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gumbala Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gumbala (Tibetan: མགུ་བཱ་ལ།) is found most frequently in Malawi. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Gumbala? popularity and diffusion

The last name Gumbala is the 798,040th most frequently used family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 20,703,255 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gumbala live; 76 percent live in Southern Africa and 76 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most commonly held forename worldwide, borne by 12 people.

This surname is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is held by 261 people, or 1 in 65,590. Beside Malawi Gumbala exists in 6 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 19 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 2 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Gumbala Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gumbala in the Tibetan language
མགུ་བཱ་ལ།gubala-

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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 Gumbala
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