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 surname Kombou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻣﺒﻮ) is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kombou? popularity and diffusion
Kombou is the 191,276th most frequent family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 3,306,509 people. Kombou is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kombou are found; 90 percent are found in Central Africa and 89 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Kombou is also the 1,125,792nd most frequently used first name in the world. It is borne by 74 people.
Kombou is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 1,906 people, or 1 in 10,897. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 41 percent live, Centre Region, where 33 percent live and West Region, where 19 percent live. Apart from Cameroon Kombou exists in 16 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 4 percent live and Cyprus, where 3 percent live.
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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