Pombwe Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Pombwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Pombwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pombwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pombwe is found in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pombwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,034,050th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. Pombwe occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Pombwe are found; 88 percent are found in Central Africa and 88 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most common in The DR Congo, where it is held by 21 people, or 1 in 3,518,075. Excluding The DR Congo this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 8 percent are found and Tanzania, where 4 percent are found.
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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
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