Polumo Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Polumo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 8 | 1:254,070 | 15,268 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Polumo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polumo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Polumo is more frequently found in Lesotho than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Polumo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Polumo is the 6,063,924th most widely held family name globally It is held by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Polumo live; 90 percent live in Southern Africa and 90 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Lesotho, where it is borne by 8 people, or 1 in 254,070. In Lesotho it is most common in: Mohale's Hoek District, where 63 percent reside, Berea District, where 13 percent reside and Leribe District, where 13 percent reside. Apart from Lesotho this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 10 percent reside and South Africa, where 10 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollumos | 86 | 0 | / |
| Pulumo | 83 | 716 | / |
| Polomo | 83 | 64 | / |
| Palumo | 83 | 49 | / |
| Poluma | 83 | 27 | / |
| Pelumo | 83 | 23 | / |
| Polimo | 83 | 7 | / |
| Palummo | 77 | 223 | / |
| Poloomo | 77 | 161 | / |
| Polimou | 77 | 11 | / |
| Phulumo | 77 | 2 | / |
| Pelumoh | 77 | 1 | / |
| Puluumo | 77 | 1 | / |
| Polouma | 77 | 1 | / |
| Palumgo | 77 | 1 | / |
| Peloumo | 77 | 1 | / |
| Palumos | 77 | 1 | / |
| Polumah | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pollumaa | 71 | 2 | / |
| Poulouma | 71 | 1 | / |
| Polhumas | 71 | 1 | / |
| Palomo | 67 | 80,954 | / |
| Poloma | 67 | 358 | / |
| Paluma | 67 | 329 | / |
| Puluma | 67 | 188 | / |
| Polima | 67 | 148 | / |
| Palimo | 67 | 64 | / |
| Pelimo | 67 | 10 | / |
| Peluma | 67 | 5 | / |
| Pulomo | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Polumo
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