Mboum Surname
Approximately 2,207 people bear this surname
Mboum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,904 | 1:10,908 | 1,466 |
| Senegal | 284 | 1:51,336 | 799 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Mboum (30) may also be a first name.
Mboum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mboum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mboum is found most in Cameroon. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mboum? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mboum is the 191,038th most common last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,302,014 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mboum live; 84 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,911,214th most frequently occurring first name internationally. It is borne by 30 people.
The last name Mboum is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 1,904 people, or 1 in 10,908. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: West Region, where 49 percent live, Littoral Region, where 24 percent live and Centre Region, where 13 percent live. Besides Cameroon this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Senegal, where 13 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 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 Mboum
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