Kembou Surname
Approximately 2,150 people bear this surname
Kembou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2,021 | 1:10,277 | 1,362 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54 | 1:150,995 | 20,848 |
| Benin | 33 | 1:313,200 | 25,349 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Kembou (39) may also be a first name.
Kembou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kembou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kembou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻤﺒﻮ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kembou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 195,234th most widespread surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 3,389,556 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kembou live; 94 percent live in Central Africa and 93 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kembou is also the 1,637,361st most frequently used given name in the world, borne by 39 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is held by 2,021 people, or 1 in 10,277. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 43 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 30 percent are found and West Region, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Cameroon this surname occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent are found and Benin, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kembou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kembou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻤﺒﻮ | kmbw | - |
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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 Kembou
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