Tembai Surname
Approximately 75 people bear this surname
Tembai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Tembai (231) may also be a first name.
Tembai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tembai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tembai is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tembai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tembai is the 2,185,341st most frequent family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 97,167,279 people. The surname Tembai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Tembai live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 590,311th most widely held forename in the world, borne by 231 people.
It is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 61 people, or 1 in 340,477. In Cameroon Tembai is primarily concentrated in: North Region, where 85 percent reside, Adamawa Region, where 13 percent reside and Centre Region, where 2 percent reside. Beside Cameroon Tembai exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 9 percent reside and Malaysia, where 4 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 Tembai
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