Poam Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Poam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 46 | 1:177,255 | 24,620 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Poam (28) may also be a first name.
Poam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Poam is more frequently found in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Poam? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,746,821st most commonly used surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Poam live; 92 percent live in Oceania Islands and 92 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Poam is also the 1,994,417th most frequently held first name internationally It is held by 28 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 46 people, or 1 in 177,255. In Papua New Guinea Poam is most frequent in: East New Britain, where 100 percent live. Barring Papua New Guinea it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Thailand, where 4 percent live and The United States, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poame | 89 | 101 | / |
| Poaim | 89 | 23 | / |
| Poham | 89 | 19 | / |
| Phoam | 89 | 11 | / |
| Poeam | 89 | 5 | / |
| Pouam | 89 | 5 | / |
| Pooam | 89 | 2 | / |
| Pouame | 80 | 437 | / |
| Phoaim | 80 | 167 | / |
| Phouam | 80 | 11 | / |
| Pogiam | 80 | 7 | / |
| Phoeam | 80 | 7 | / |
| Pooaim | 80 | 6 | / |
| Poeaim | 80 | 5 | / |
| Pojham | 80 | 2 | / |
| Phoaum | 80 | 2 | / |
| Pooaum | 80 | 2 | / |
| Phooam | 80 | 1 | / |
| Poieam | 80 | 1 | / |
| Pohamh | 80 | 1 | / |
| Poeham | 80 | 1 | / |
| Pohham | 80 | 0 | / |
| Poan | 75 | 339 | / |
| Paom | 75 | 7 | / |
| Poojyam | 73 | 14 | / |
| Poamová | 73 | 4 | / |
| Phohgam | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phoeaim | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phoyiam | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phoyeam | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phoamnd | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phoieam | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pohan | 67 | 29,336 | / |
| Pouan | 67 | 792 | / |
| Phoan | 67 | 510 | / |
| Poyom | 67 | 492 | / |
| Poane | 67 | 290 | / |
| Pahom | 67 | 231 | / |
| Poang | 67 | 133 | / |
| Pöham | 67 | 75 | / |
| Pooan | 67 | 56 | / |
| Puiam | 67 | 26 | / |
| Pohom | 67 | 23 | / |
| Paoim | 67 | 10 | / |
| Poant | 67 | 6 | / |
| Poain | 67 | 4 | / |
| Poľan | 67 | 2 | / |
| Paaum | 67 | 2 | / |
| Puoan | 67 | 1 | / |
| Poann | 67 | 1 | / |
| Poand | 67 | 1 | / |
| Paome | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Poam
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