Messame Surname
Approximately 361 people bear this surname
Messame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 346 | 1:60,026 | 7,727 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
Messame (72) may also be a first name.
Messame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Messame Come From? nationality or country of origin
Messame is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Messame? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 783,439th most commonly used surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 20,187,108 people. The last name Messame occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Messame reside; 97 percent reside in Central Africa and 74 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Messame is also the 1,143,416th most frequently used first name world-wide. It is borne by 72 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 346 people, or 1 in 60,026. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 46 percent are found, East Region, where 29 percent are found and Centre Region, where 12 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Gabon, where 2 percent are found and Benin, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Messame
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