Nyobè

surname · Latin script

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

  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 4.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,800 people, est.

Record sources
63 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)Make your nomograph ✦

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nyobe in FR France, CM Cameroon, BE Belgium.

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.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nyobè 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 Nyobè is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon#339≈5,800 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Nyobe16
FR France—≈68 est.≈1 in 991K—Nyobe63
BE Belgium—31 in 3.9M3Nyobe6
CH Switzerland—31 in 2.8M3——
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1——

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Nyobè is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cameroon, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Nyobe

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cameroon, United States, South Africa, Tanzania

    Also written Nyobe

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 Nyobè 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 Nyobè have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Nyobè in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyobe.
How common is the name Nyobè?
In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Nyobè in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
How common is Nyobè compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Nyobè is the 339th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Nyobè?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nyob%C3%A8

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Nyobè” — the 339th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Nyobè parses inside a full name →