Ongbe Surname
Approximately 181 people bear this surname
Ongbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 151 | 1:152,790 | 7,105 |
| Cameroon | 27 | 1:769,225 | 54,005 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ongbe (43) may also be a first name.
Ongbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ongbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ongbe is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ongbe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ongbe is the 1,267,784th most frequently held family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 40,262,685 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Ongbe are found; 77 percent are found in West Africa and 75 percent are found in Mande Africa. Ongbe is also the 1,545,828th most commonly occurring given name in the world. It is borne by 43 people.
Ongbe is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 151 people, or 1 in 152,790. In The Ivory Coast Ongbe is mostly concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 90 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 9 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 1 percent live. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 15 percent live and Nigeria, 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 Ongbe
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