Sumbo Surname
Approximately 16,270 people bear this surname
Sumbo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 14,198 | 1:1,901 | 337 |
| Philippines | 1,197 | 1:84,577 | 14,662 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| Tanzania | 91 | 1:581,776 | 36,762 |
| Nigeria | 81 | 1:2,186,948 | 74,923 |
| DR Congo | 55 | 1:1,343,265 | 79,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 37 | 1:220,371 | 30,351 |
| Cameroon | 37 | 1:561,326 | 43,620 |
| Liberia | 34 | 1:129,663 | 9,726 |
| Brazil | 9 | 1:23,786,037 | 375,389 |
| Solomon Islands | 9 | 1:64,448 | 12,261 |
| France | 8 | 1:8,302,840 | 321,660 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Sumbo (4,324) may also be a first name.
Sumbo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sumbo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sumbo occurs more in Angola more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sumbo? popularity and diffusion
It is the 32,685th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 447,913 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Sumbo reside; 87 percent reside in Southern Africa and 87 percent reside in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 105,143rd most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 4,324 people.
The surname is most widely held in Angola, where it is borne by 14,198 people, or 1 in 1,901. Besides Angola this surname is found in 30 countries. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 7 percent live and Ghana, where 2 percent live.
Sumbo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Sumbo has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sumbo last name increased 150 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sumbo
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