Tolema Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Tolema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 36 | 1:509,781 | 7,011 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Tolema (15) may also be a first name.
Tolema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tolema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tolema is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tolema? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,017,195th most numerous surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 173,512,998 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Tolema reside; 86 percent reside in West Africa and 86 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 15 people.
The surname is most widely held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 509,781. In Burkina Faso it is mostly found in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Burkina Faso Tolema exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 10 percent reside and Italy, 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 Tolema
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