Wambie Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Wambie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 18 | 1:1,019,561 | 10,177 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Wambie (420) may also be a first name.
Wambie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wambie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wambie is more commonly found in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wambie? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,274,477th most prevalent family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname Wambie is predominantly found in Africa, where 56 percent of Wambie live; 53 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 419,319th most widely held first name in the world, borne by 420 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 1,019,561. In Burkina Faso Wambie is primarily found in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 100 percent reside. Besides Burkina Faso Wambie exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 42 percent reside and Cameroon, where 6 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
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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 Wambie
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