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
Kembou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻤﺒﻮ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kembou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 195,234th most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 3,389,556 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kembou are found; 94 percent are found in Central Africa and 93 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Kembou is also the 1,637,361st most frequently held given name on earth It is held by 39 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 2,021 people, or 1 in 10,277. In Cameroon Kembou is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 43 percent live, Littoral Region, where 30 percent live and West Region, where 18 percent live. Other than Cameroon Kembou occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent live and Benin, where 2 percent live.
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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