Koama Surname
Approximately 12,143 people bear this surname
Koama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 11,919 | 1:1,540 | 226 |
| Papua New Guinea | 56 | 1:145,602 | 20,089 |
| Botswana | 55 | 1:39,762 | 7,636 |
| Ivory Coast | 42 | 1:549,315 | 16,834 |
| Indonesia | 34 | 1:3,889,682 | 201,134 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Guyana | 7 | 1:108,889 | 7,175 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Rwanda | 4 | 1:2,841,244 | 3,611 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Koama (256) may also be a first name.
Koama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Koama occurs in Burkina Faso more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Koama.
How Common Is The Last Name Koama? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 42,874th most widely held family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 600,144 people. Koama occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Koama live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Koama is also the 556,659th most frequent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 256 people.
Koama is most widely held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 11,919 people, or 1 in 1,540. In Burkina Faso it is most common in: Centre Region, where 36 percent reside, Centre-Ouest Region, where 25 percent reside and Plateau-Central Region, where 22 percent reside. Outside of Burkina Faso this surname exists in 19 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 0 percent reside and Botswana, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Koama
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