Kumbu Surname
Approximately 21,420 people bear this surname
Kumbu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 20,365 | 1:3,628 | 397 |
| Papua New Guinea | 343 | 1:23,772 | 2,611 |
| Kenya | 332 | 1:139,096 | 11,295 |
| Cameroon | 121 | 1:171,645 | 18,315 |
| Nigeria | 39 | 1:4,542,122 | 122,724 |
| Zambia | 34 | 1:466,174 | 21,520 |
| Sudan | 25 | 1:1,500,408 | 3,610 |
| Ireland | 21 | 1:224,235 | 8,707 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Angola | 16 | 1:1,686,826 | 3,823 |
| India | 14 | 1:54,790,384 | 527,769 |
| Indonesia | 13 | 1:10,173,015 | 372,576 |
| Belgium | 11 | 1:1,045,149 | 78,166 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| United States | 8 | 1:45,307,367 | 917,113 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
The alternate forms: Kümbü (13) are calculated separately.
Kumbu (1,242) may also be a first name.
Kumbu Demographics
Kumbu Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kumbu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kumbu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kumbu (Oriya: କୁୁ, Tibetan: སྐུམ་བུ་) occurs most in The DR Congo. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Kümbü. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kumbu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kumbu is the 25,185th most commonly held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 340,222 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kumbu live; 96 percent live in Central Africa and 96 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 224,199th most widely held first name on earth It is held by 1,242 people.
This last name is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 20,365 people, or 1 in 3,628. Excluding The DR Congo it occurs in 31 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found and Kenya, where 2 percent are found.
Kumbu Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Christian (75%) in Kenya.
Kumbu earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 43.4% more than the national average, earning $61,875 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaumbu | 91 | 3,725 | / |
| Khumbu | 91 | 221 | / |
| Kumbui | 91 | 197 | / |
| Kumbuh | 91 | 73 | / |
| Kuimbu | 91 | 41 | / |
| Keumbu | 91 | 34 | / |
| Kumbhu | 91 | 25 | / |
| Kumbau | 91 | 20 | / |
| Kumbou | 91 | 14 | / |
| Kumbuu | 91 | 4 | / |
| Koumbu | 91 | 2 | / |
| Kuumbu | 91 | 2 | / |
| Kumbud | 91 | 1 | / |
| Kumbuz | 91 | 1 | / |
| Kuhmbu | 91 | 1 | / |
| Kümbü | 87 | 13 | / |
| Koumbou | 83 | 713 | / |
| Kahumbu | 83 | 548 | / |
| Keumbou | 83 | 325 | / |
| Khumbuu | 83 | 4 | / |
| Koumbeu | 83 | 2 | / |
| Kuembou | 83 | 2 | / |
| Keumbeu | 83 | 2 | / |
| Kuimbou | 83 | 1 | / |
| Khumbut | 83 | 1 | / |
| Koumbuh | 83 | 1 | / |
| Kimbu | 80 | 1,572 | / |
| Kombu | 80 | 1,435 | / |
| Kunbu | 80 | 11 | / |
| Cumbu | 80 | 2 | / |
| Kumvu | 80 | 1 | / |
| Kumbusch | 77 | 1 | / |
| Kumb'hou | 77 | 1 | / |
| Koumboud | 77 | 1 | / |
| Kuhmbuch | 77 | 0 | / |
| Kombou | 73 | 2,204 | / |
| Kimbau | 73 | 442 | / |
| Kimbui | 73 | 289 | / |
| Cumbus | 73 | 278 | / |
| Kombau | 73 | 38 | / |
| Kombuy | 73 | 30 | / |
| Kimbuy | 73 | 27 | / |
| Kumboe | 73 | 26 | / |
| Kuimvu | 73 | 21 | / |
| Kunbui | 73 | 7 | / |
| Kunbus | 73 | 5 | / |
| Kunbud | 73 | 5 | / |
| Kimbhu | 73 | 4 | / |
| Kiembu | 73 | 4 | / |
| Kunbuz | 73 | 3 | / |
| Kombui | 73 | 2 | / |
| Cumbou | 73 | 1 | / |
| Cuembu | 73 | 1 | / |
| Cumbut | 73 | 1 | / |
| Khunbu | 73 | 1 | / |
| Keutimbeu | 71 | 1 | / |
| Khunbut | 67 | 120 | / |
| Cumbuss | 67 | 9 | / |
| Kombuha | 67 | 4 | / |
| Khumboo | 67 | 4 | / |
| Cumbaus | 67 | 1 | / |
| Koumboe | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kimmbou | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kuchembuch | 67 | 1 | / |
| Coumbus | 67 | 1 | / |
| Quimbui | 67 | 1 | / |
| Cumbuys | 67 | 0 | / |
| Cumbust | 67 | 0 | / |
Kumbu Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kumbu in the Oriya language | ||
| କୁୁ | kuu | 66.67 |
| କୁଂବୁ | kumbu | 33.33 |
| Kumbu in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྐུམ་བུ་ | kumbu | 60.63 |
| སྐུམ་བུ། | kumbu | 21.26 |
| ཀུམ་བུ་ | kumbu | 13.78 |
| ཀུམ་བུ། | kumbu | 3.15 |
| སྐུམ་བུ | kumbu | 0.39 |
| ཀ྄མ་བུ། | kmbu | 0.39 |
| སྐ྄མ་བུ་ | kmbu | 0.39 |
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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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- 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 Kumbu
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