Kebei Surname
Approximately 788 people bear this surname
Kebei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 513 | 1:40,486 | 5,405 |
| Papua New Guinea | 179 | 1:45,551 | 5,636 |
| Kenya | 73 | 1:632,601 | 28,796 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kebei (2,366) may also be a first name.
Kebei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kebei Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kebei is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kebei? popularity and diffusion
Kebei is the 435,773rd most frequently occurring family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 9,248,155 people. Kebei is mostly found in Africa, where 76 percent of Kebei live; 65 percent live in Central Africa and 65 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 152,768th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 2,366 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 513 people, or 1 in 40,486. In Cameroon Kebei is primarily concentrated in: Southwest Region, where 50 percent live, Northwest Region, where 42 percent live and Littoral Region, where 4 percent live. Apart from Cameroon this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 23 percent live and Kenya, where 9 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kebei
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