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
The last name Messame is found most in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Messame.
How Common Is The Last Name Messame? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 783,439th most widespread last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 20,187,108 people. The surname Messame occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Messame are found; 97 percent are found in Central Africa and 74 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Messame is also the 1,143,416th most frequently held forename throughout the world It is held by 72 people.
Messame is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 346 people, or 1 in 60,026. In Cameroon Messame is primarily found in: Littoral Region, where 46 percent live, East Region, where 29 percent live and Centre Region, where 12 percent live. Not including Cameroon it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Gabon, where 2 percent live and Benin, where 1 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 Messame
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