Songbe Surname
Approximately 149 people bear this surname
Songbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 130 | 1:79,505 | 9,420 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Songbe (13) may also be a first name.
Songbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Songbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Songbe is held by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Songbe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,441,361st most frequent surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 48,909,704 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Songbe are found; 89 percent are found in West Africa and 88 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,159,357th most widespread first name world-wide It is held by 13 people.
The last name is most common in Benin, where it is carried by 130 people, or 1 in 79,505. In Benin it is most prevalent in: Zou Department, where 60 percent live, Littoral Department, where 22 percent live and Ouémé Department, where 9 percent live. Besides Benin this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 5 percent live and France, where 1 percent live.
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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 Songbe
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