Kambé

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kambé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 72K
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Senegal (inferred from the name graph)

≈230 people, est.

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)

Senegal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kambe in CM Cameroon, SN Senegal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kambé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kambé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal≈230 est.≈1 in 69K—Kambe4
BR Brazil1221 in 1.7M122——
NO Norway761 in 72K76——
IN India621 in 21M62—1
CM Cameroon≈20 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Kambe3
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kambé is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, El Salvador, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Kambe

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Kambe

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kambe

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kambé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kambé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 227 people named Kambé in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kambe.
How common is the name Kambé?
In Brazil, the national register counted 122 people named Kambé, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kambé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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