Kongabe Surname

4,307,654th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 21 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Benin
Highest density in:
Benin

Kongabe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kongabe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Benin181:574,20035,798
Cameroon31:6,923,023143,724

The alternate forms: Kongabé (1) are calculated separately.

Kongabe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kongabe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Kongabe is found in Benin more than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms: Kongabé. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kongabe? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 4,307,654th most widely held surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 347,025,996 people. The last name Kongabe is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kongabe live; 90 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

Kongabe is most frequently used in Benin, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 574,200. In Benin it is mostly concentrated in: Donga Department, where 50 percent live, Zou Department, where 44 percent live and Borgou Department, where 6 percent live. Not including Benin this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 14 percent live.

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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 Kongabe
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