Ouemba Surname
Approximately 482 people bear this surname
Ouemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 269 | 1:68,223 | 2,617 |
| Cameroon | 190 | 1:109,311 | 12,779 |
| France | 17 | 1:3,907,219 | 231,005 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Ouemba (81) may also be a first name.
Ouemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouemba is found most in Burkina Faso. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouemba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 633,196th most prevalent surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 15,119,390 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Ouemba live; 56 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,068,082nd most prevalent forename globally, held by 81 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 269 people, or 1 in 68,223. In Burkina Faso it is most common in: Centre-Nord Region, where 68 percent reside, Centre Region, where 24 percent reside and Plateau-Central Region, where 5 percent reside. Other than Burkina Faso this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 39 percent reside and France, where 4 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
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- 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 Ouemba
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