Wombe Surname
Approximately 486 people bear this surname
Wombe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 417 | 1:177,169 | 18,031 |
| Papua New Guinea | 35 | 1:232,963 | 32,024 |
| Zimbabwe | 12 | 1:1,286,520 | 73,455 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Swaziland | 4 | 1:324,550 | 996 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Wombe (15) may also be a first name.
Wombe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wombe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wombe is most common in The DR Congo. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wombe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wombe is the 629,292nd most widespread surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 14,994,950 people. The surname Wombe occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Wombe live; 87 percent live in Central Africa and 87 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Wombe is also the 2,900,335th most commonly occurring forename internationally It is held by 15 people.
The last name is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 417 people, or 1 in 177,169. Beside The DR Congo this surname is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent reside and Zimbabwe, 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
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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 Wombe
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