Messoum Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Messoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 110 | 1:209,738 | 8,837 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Algeria | 9 | 1:4,292,395 | 48,087 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Messoum (58) may also be a first name.
Messoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Messoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Messoum is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Messoum? popularity and diffusion
Messoum is the 1,504,764th most widely held family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 52,428,388 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 63 percent of Messoum live; 44 percent live in West Africa and 22 percent live in Mande Africa. Messoum is also the 1,295,729th most frequent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 58 people.
The last name Messoum is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 110 people, or 1 in 209,738. In The Ivory Coast Messoum is primarily found in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 45 percent reside, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 30 percent reside and Lacs District, where 19 percent reside. Outside of The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 13 percent reside and Algeria, where 6 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 Messoum
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