Kembe Surname
Approximately 7,749 people bear this surname
Kembe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 6,116 | 1:12,080 | 1,500 |
| Chad | 674 | 1:20,166 | 2,465 |
| Cameroon | 206 | 1:100,821 | 11,910 |
| Nigeria | 161 | 1:1,100,266 | 45,533 |
| Papua New Guinea | 157 | 1:51,935 | 6,528 |
| Zambia | 140 | 1:113,214 | 8,786 |
| Tanzania | 112 | 1:472,693 | 32,330 |
| Indonesia | 60 | 1:2,204,153 | 134,948 |
| South Africa | 28 | 1:1,934,918 | 88,980 |
| Mauritania | 20 | 1:204,743 | 10,209 |
| Sweden | 10 | 1:984,676 | 73,605 |
| Burkina Faso | 9 | 1:2,039,122 | 15,494 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Hungary | 8 | 1:1,227,035 | 53,030 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
Kembe (424) may also be a first name.
Kembe Demographics
Average Kembe Salary in
South Africa
R 171,060
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Kembe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kembe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kembe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻤﺐ, Marathi: कोेंबे) is carried by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kembe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 64,555th most frequently used family name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 940,450 people. Kembe is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Kembe reside; 81 percent reside in Central Africa and 81 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 417,166th most common given name internationally, borne by 424 people.
The last name Kembe is most widespread in The DR Congo, where it is held by 6,116 people, or 1 in 12,080. Excluding The DR Congo this last name is found in 29 countries. It also occurs in Chad, where 9 percent reside and Cameroon, where 3 percent reside.
Kembe Last Name Statistics demography
Kembe earn significantly less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 28.02% less than the national average, earning R 171,060 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kembe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kembe in the Marathi language | ||
| कोेंबे | koembe | - |
| Kembe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻤﺐ | kmb | 77.78 |
| ﻛﻤﺒﻪ | kmbh | 16.67 |
| ﺍﻛﻤﺐ | akmb | 5.56 |
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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 Kembe
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