Houmba Surname
Approximately 951 people bear this surname
Houmba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 908 | 1:5,495 | 866 |
| Benin | 14 | 1:738,257 | 40,906 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Houmba (83) may also be a first name.
Houmba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houmba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Houmba has its highest incidence in The Congo. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Houmba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 376,169th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 7,663,035 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Houmba are found; 96 percent are found in Central Africa and 96 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Houmba is also the 1,052,971st most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 83 people.
Houmba is most common in The Congo, where it is held by 908 people, or 1 in 5,495. In The Congo it is most frequent in: Bouenza Department, where 55 percent live, Brazzaville Department, where 24 percent live and Pointe-Noire Department, where 19 percent live. Beside The Congo Houmba exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 1 percent live and Cameroon, where 1 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Houmba
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