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
Mboum is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mboum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 191,038th most commonly used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 3,302,014 people. Mboum is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Mboum live; 84 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mboum is also the 1,911,214th most commonly held forename internationally, borne by 30 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is held by 1,904 people, or 1 in 10,908. In Cameroon Mboum is mostly found in: West Region, where 49 percent live, Littoral Region, where 24 percent live and Centre Region, where 13 percent live. Not including Cameroon this surname occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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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