Hemba Surname
Approximately 4,236 people bear this surname
Hemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2,279 | 1:77,728 | 5,540 |
| Tanzania | 516 | 1:102,600 | 10,029 |
| DR Congo | 349 | 1:211,689 | 20,903 |
| Ukraine | 324 | 1:140,502 | 19,687 |
| India | 270 | 1:2,840,983 | 86,804 |
| Nepal | 134 | 1:212,544 | 3,021 |
| Ivory Coast | 82 | 1:281,356 | 10,805 |
| Ecuador | 77 | 1:206,569 | 7,938 |
| Indonesia | 77 | 1:1,717,522 | 111,746 |
| United States | 51 | 1:7,107,038 | 327,397 |
| Cameroon | 30 | 1:692,302 | 50,404 |
| Papua New Guinea | 16 | 1:509,607 | 63,542 |
| Uganda | 14 | 1:2,788,520 | 78,087 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Hemba (556) may also be a first name.
Hemba Demographics
Average Hemba Salary in
United States
$41,250 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Hemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hemba (Bengali: হেম্বা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻤﺐ, Hindi: हेम्बा, Marathi: हेमा, Oriya: େବକ) is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hemba? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hemba is the 109,808th most frequent surname internationally, held by around 1 in 1,720,384 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 77 percent of Hemba reside; 55 percent reside in West Africa and 55 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 356,749th most widespread first name in the world It is held by 556 people.
It is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 2,279 people, or 1 in 77,728. In Nigeria it is most common in: Benue, where 87 percent live, Taraba, where 2 percent live and Nasarawa, where 2 percent live. Other than Nigeria Hemba occurs in 21 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 12 percent live and The DR Congo, where 8 percent live.
Hemba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Hemba surname is primarily Christian (97%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Hemba surname are 31.8% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 78.57% being registered with the political party.
Hemba earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.4% less than the national average, earning $41,250 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hemba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hemba in the Bengali language | ||
| হেম্বা | hemba | - |
| Hemba in the Hindi language | ||
| हेम्बा | hemba | - |
| Hemba in the Marathi language | ||
| हेमा | hema | - |
| Hemba in the Oriya language | ||
| େବକ | ebaka | 50 |
| େଦଇ | eda'i | 50 |
| Hemba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻤﺐ | hmb | 33.33 |
| ﺣﻤﺐ | hmb | 33.33 |
| ﻫﻤﺪﺏ | hmdb | 33.33 |
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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 Hemba
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