Tombou Surname
Approximately 350 people bear this surname
Tombou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 342 | 1:60,728 | 7,792 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tombou (46) may also be a first name.
Tombou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tombou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tombou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻤﺒﻮ) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tombou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 801,116th most commonly used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 20,821,560 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Tombou are found; 97 percent are found in Central Africa and 81 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Tombou is also the 1,484,914th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 46 people.
It is most widespread in Cameroon, where it is borne by 342 people, or 1 in 60,728. In Cameroon Tombou is most common in: East Region, where 48 percent reside, Centre Region, where 19 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 15 percent reside. Other than Cameroon Tombou exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Senegal, where 1 percent reside and Belgium, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tombou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tombou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻤﺒﻮ | tmbw | 66.67 |
| ﺗﻮﻣﺒﻮ | twmbw | 33.33 |
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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 Tombou
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