Wombou Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Wombou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wombou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wombou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wombou is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wombou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wombou is the 6,360,413th most widely held surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 809,727,324 people. The last name Wombou is mostly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Wombou live; 67 percent live in Central Africa and 67 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 3,461,511. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 33 percent reside, Centre Region, where 17 percent reside and West Region, where 17 percent reside. Not including Cameroon Wombou exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 22 percent reside and The United States, where 11 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 Wombou
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