Mbame Surname
Approximately 585 people bear this surname
Mbame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 280 | 1:263,856 | 24,810 |
| Cameroon | 237 | 1:87,633 | 10,590 |
| Nigeria | 40 | 1:4,428,569 | 120,862 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Mbame (23) may also be a first name.
Mbame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mbame Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mbame (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻣﺒﺎﻡ) is borne by more people in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mbame? popularity and diffusion
It is the 546,987th most prevalent surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 12,457,343 people. The last name Mbame occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Mbame reside; 87 percent reside in Central Africa and 75 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Mbame is also the 2,239,265th most prevalent first name on earth. It is borne by 23 people.
The last name is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 280 people, or 1 in 263,856. Without taking into account The DR Congo Mbame occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 41 percent live and Nigeria, where 7 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mbame Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mbame in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻣﺒﺎﻡ | ambam | - |
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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 Mbame
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