Kambou
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kambou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 86Kas คำบัว(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kambou itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈800 named คำบัว, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled คำบัว in TH Thailand.
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)
Kambou 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 86K | #36,656 | คำบัว | 51 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | — | 10K | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 1 | — | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Modeste Kamboub. 1963Burkinabe Roman-Catholic priest
- Romeo Kamboub. 1980BFBurkinabe footballer
- Bèbè Kamboub. 1982BFBurkinabe and French footballer
- Mini Patricia Kamboub. 1983BFBurkinabé singer
- Hervé Kamboub. 1985CIIvorian-Peruvian footballer
- Ollo Kamboub. 1986CIIvorian footballer
- Sié Fahige Kamboub. 1995Burkinabe athletics competitor (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 10K | #56 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,490 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kambou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 800 people named คำบัว in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kambou most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kambou is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kambou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9 people named Kambou, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kambou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kambouThe 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, “Kambou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.