Kome Surname
Approximately 19,071 people bear this surname
Kome Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 8,339 | 1:2,491 | 277 |
| Burkina Faso | 1,865 | 1:9,840 | 906 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1,559 | 1:5,230 | 312 |
| Mali | 1,355 | 1:12,523 | 589 |
| Senegal | 775 | 1:18,812 | 506 |
| Chad | 770 | 1:17,652 | 2,191 |
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| DR Congo | 445 | 1:166,022 | 17,095 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Ivory Coast | 403 | 1:57,249 | 3,405 |
| Nigeria | 376 | 1:471,124 | 23,774 |
| Lesotho | 316 | 1:6,432 | 1,345 |
| South Africa | 302 | 1:179,396 | 19,719 |
| Kenya | 193 | 1:239,274 | 16,651 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Mauritania | 149 | 1:27,482 | 2,315 |
| Indonesia | 136 | 1:972,421 | 71,642 |
| Tanzania | 125 | 1:423,533 | 29,670 |
| Botswana | 121 | 1:18,074 | 3,590 |
| Benin | 87 | 1:118,800 | 13,087 |
| Philippines | 82 | 1:1,234,612 | 95,620 |
| United States | 75 | 1:4,832,786 | 249,377 |
| India | 44 | 1:17,433,304 | 271,013 |
| Solomon Islands | 35 | 1:16,572 | 3,167 |
| Zimbabwe | 27 | 1:571,787 | 44,609 |
| Sudan | 25 | 1:1,500,408 | 3,610 |
| New Zealand | 25 | 1:181,133 | 19,287 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| Netherlands | 18 | 1:938,176 | 63,634 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| Liberia | 10 | 1:440,854 | 21,753 |
| American Samoa | 8 | 1:6,970 | 1,431 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 1:5,861,186 | 33,577 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
The alternate forms: Komé (649), Köme (328) & Komè (1) are calculated separately.
Kome (3,890) may also be a first name.
Kome Demographics
Average Kome Salary in
United States
$41,323 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kome Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kome Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kome (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻣﻰ, Hindi: कोमी, Marathi: कोमे) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Komé, Köme or Komè. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kome? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 28,194th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 382,127 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 89 percent of Kome live; 46 percent live in Central Africa and 46 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 112,418th most commonly held first name world-wide It is held by 3,890 people.
This last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is carried by 8,339 people, or 1 in 2,491. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: West Region, where 58 percent live, Southwest Region, where 22 percent live and Northwest Region, where 7 percent live. Besides Cameroon this last name is found in 69 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 10 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent live.
Kome Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Kome has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Kome surname rose 625 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kome Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Kome surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya and Christian (100%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Kome surname are 3.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 50% registered with the political party.
The amount Kome earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 59.99% less than the national average, earning R 95,076 per year; in United States they earn 4.23% less than the national average, earning $41,323 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.74% more than the national average, earning $56,014 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kome Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kome in the Hindi language | ||
| कोमी | komi | - |
| Kome in the Marathi language | ||
| कोमे | kome | 92.31 |
| कोम | koma | 7.69 |
| Kome in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻣﻰ | kwmy | 68.18 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﻲ | kwmy | 22.73 |
| ﻛﻮﻡ | kwm | 5.91 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﻴﻪ | kwmyh | 2.27 |
| ﻛﻮﻣﻪ | kwmh | 0.45 |
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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 Kome
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