Tamue Surname
Approximately 86 people bear this surname
Tamue Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 44 | 1:185,312 | 25,733 |
| Cameroon | 37 | 1:561,326 | 43,620 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tamue (20) may also be a first name.
Tamue Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tamue Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tamue occurs most in Papua New Guinea. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tamue? popularity and diffusion
Tamue is the 2,020,555th most numerous family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 84,738,906 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 51 percent of Tamue reside; 51 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 51 percent reside in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,446,817th most widespread first name at a global level, borne by 20 people.
This last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 44 people, or 1 in 185,312. In Papua New Guinea it is mostly found in: East New Britain, where 98 percent reside and New Ireland, where 2 percent reside. Outside of Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 43 percent reside and Liberia, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Tamue
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