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 has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Messame? popularity and diffusion
It is the 783,439th most frequently held last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 20,187,108 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Messame live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 74 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,143,416th most commonly held first name globally. It is borne by 72 people.
The surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 346 people, or 1 in 60,026. In Cameroon Messame is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 46 percent reside, East Region, where 29 percent reside and Centre Region, where 12 percent reside. Besides Cameroon it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Gabon, where 2 percent reside and Benin, where 1 percent reside.
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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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