Kombou Surname
Approximately 2,204 people bear this surname
Kombou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,906 | 1:10,897 | 1,462 |
| Congo | 85 | 1:58,695 | 5,228 |
| Cyprus | 61 | 1:14,506 | 1,654 |
| Benin | 43 | 1:240,363 | 21,480 |
| Ivory Coast | 37 | 1:623,547 | 18,271 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Burkina Faso | 18 | 1:1,019,561 | 10,177 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Kombou (74) may also be a first name.
Kombou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kombou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kombou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻮ) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kombou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kombou is the 191,276th most common surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 3,306,509 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kombou live; 90 percent live in Central Africa and 89 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kombou is also the 1,125,792nd most commonly occurring first name worldwide It is held by 74 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 1,906 people, or 1 in 10,897. In Cameroon Kombou is mostly concentrated in: Littoral Region, where 41 percent are found, Centre Region, where 33 percent are found and West Region, where 19 percent are found. Barring Cameroon this last name occurs in 16 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 4 percent are found and Cyprus, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kombou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kombou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻮ | kwmbw | - |
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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 Kombou
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