Tembou Surname
Approximately 261 people bear this surname
Tembou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 210 | 1:98,900 | 11,715 |
| Mauritania | 23 | 1:178,038 | 9,291 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Tembou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tembou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tembou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻤﺒﻮ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Tembou.
How Common Is The Last Name Tembou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tembou is the 985,740th most frequently held family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 27,921,632 people. The surname Tembou is mostly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Tembou live; 82 percent live in Central Africa and 82 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 210 people, or 1 in 98,900. In Cameroon Tembou is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 35 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 34 percent reside and West Region, where 21 percent reside. Excluding Cameroon this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 9 percent reside and Belgium, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tembou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tembou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻤﺒﻮ | tmbw | 80 |
| ﻃﻤﺒﻮ | tmbw | 10 |
| ﺗﻮﻣﺒﻮ | twmbw | 10 |
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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 Tembou
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