Kourbe Surname
Approximately 144 people bear this surname
Kourbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 141 | 1:147,298 | 16,269 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Kourbe (477) may also be a first name.
Kourbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kourbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kourbe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﺏ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kourbe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kourbe is the 1,471,719th most widely held family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 50,607,958 people. The last name Kourbe is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kourbe are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Kourbe is also the 389,495th most commonly occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 477 people.
Kourbe is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 141 people, or 1 in 147,298. In Cameroon Kourbe is most common in: Far North Region, where 99 percent are found and Adamawa Region, where 1 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 1 percent are found and Mauritania, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kourbe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kourbe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﺏ | krb | - |
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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 Kourbe
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