Tamboura Surname
Approximately 134,791 people bear this surname
Tamboura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 101,211 | 1:181 | 28 |
| Mali | 29,686 | 1:572 | 82 |
| Senegal | 2,284 | 1:6,383 | 296 |
| Mauritania | 826 | 1:4,957 | 595 |
| Ivory Coast | 266 | 1:86,734 | 4,640 |
| Palestine | 240 | 1:18,954 | 3,082 |
| Niger | 70 | 1:274,172 | 8,473 |
| Guinea | 60 | 1:197,230 | 991 |
| France | 32 | 1:2,075,710 | 171,237 |
| Cyprus | 27 | 1:32,773 | 3,506 |
| United States | 26 | 1:13,940,728 | 505,428 |
| Tunisia | 13 | 1:46,971 | 6,396 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
Tamboura (176) may also be a first name.
Tamboura Demographics
Average Tamboura Salary in
United States
$28,482 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tamboura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tamboura Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tamboura (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭﺍ) is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tamboura? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,167th most widely held last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 54,066 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tamboura live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Tamboura is also the 687,834th most frequently occurring given name internationally, held by 176 people.
The last name Tamboura is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 101,211 people, or 1 in 181. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Sahel Region, where 83 percent live, Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 6 percent live and Centre-Nord Region, where 3 percent live. Apart from Burkina Faso Tamboura occurs in 32 countries. It also occurs in Mali, where 22 percent live and Senegal, where 2 percent live.
Tamboura Last Name Statistics demography
Tamboura earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 33.99% less than the national average, earning $28,482 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tamboura Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tamboura in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭﺍ | tambwra | 79.33 |
| ﺗﻤﺒﻮﺭﺍ | tmbwra | 12.85 |
| ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭﻩ | tambwrh | 1.68 |
| ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭ | tambwr | 1.12 |
| ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭﻱ | tambwry | 1.12 |
| ﺗﻨﺒﻮﺭﺍ | tnbwra | 1.12 |
| ﺗﺎﻣﺒﻮﺭﻯ | tambwry | 1.12 |
| ﺗﻤﺒﻮﺭﻩ | tmbwrh | 0.56 |
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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 Tamboura
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