Songambele Surname

691,116th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 428 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Songambele Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Songambele Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania2751:192,51516,538
DR Congo1501:492,53039,325
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Songambele (286) may also be a first name.

Songambele Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Songambele Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Songambele is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Songambele.

How Common Is The Last Name Songambele? popularity and diffusion

It is the 691,116th most widely held last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 17,026,976 people. The last name Songambele occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Songambele reside; 64 percent reside in East Africa and 64 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 523,065th most frequently used first name worldwide It is held by 286 people.

This surname is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is held by 275 people, or 1 in 192,515. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Dar es Salaam Region, where 55 percent are found, Ruvuma Region, where 24 percent are found and Dodoma Region, where 3 percent are found. Other than Tanzania this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 35 percent are found and Canada, where 0 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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Songambele
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