Wongoum Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Wongoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Wongoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wongoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wongoum occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Wongoum.
How Common Is The Last Name Wongoum? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wongoum is the 3,798,600th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Wongoum live; 96 percent live in Central Africa and 96 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
Wongoum is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 26 people, or 1 in 798,810. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 92 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this last name occurs in one country. It is also found in Belgium, where 4 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 Wongoum
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