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 occurs more in Benin more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Songbe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,441,361st most widespread last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 48,909,704 people. The last name occurs mostly 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 frequent first name in the world, borne by 13 people.
It is most prevalent in Benin, where it is borne by 130 people, or 1 in 79,505. In Benin Songbe is most prevalent in: Zou Department, where 60 percent are found, Littoral Department, where 22 percent are found and Ouémé Department, where 9 percent are found. Other than Benin Songbe exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 5 percent are found and France, where 1 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 Songbe
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