Koumba
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Koumba is a surname, most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- GAGabon1 in 19◐
- FRFrance1 in 3.1M
- CGCongo - Brazzaville1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈55 ●
- Sources
- 141 ●
- 1 in 1.1M ◐
across 6 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Komba in TZ Tanzania, BE Belgium, KE Kenya and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | #2 | 28,370 | 330 rec. | — | 28K | Koumba | 46 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #40 | 996 | 1K rec. | — | — | Koumba | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 411 | 171 rec. | — | 2 | Komba | 19 |
| US United States | — | 74 | 142 rec. | — | listed | Koumba | 34 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #45 | 64 | 76 rec. | — | — | Koumba | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 48 | 51 rec. | — | — | Koumba | 5 |
| KE Kenya | — | 29 | 0 rec. | — | — | Komba | 4 |
| FR France | — | 22 | 4K rec. | 1 in 3.1M | 750 | Koumba | 141 |
| SN Senegal | — | 21 | 25 rec. | — | — | Koumba | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 18 | 19 rec. | — | — | Koumba | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12 | 7 rec. | — | — | Koumba | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 9 | 17 rec. | 1 in 5.6M | 41 | — | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French32K96%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)4451%
- English2691%
- Swahili2111%
- Portuguese611%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 31,890 | 96% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 445 | 1% |
| English | 269 | 1% |
| Swahili | 211 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 61 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Justin Koumbab. 1947CGCongolese politician
- Amine Linganzib. 1989FRnot in their usual nameFrench and Congolese association football player
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | This page provides an overview of Gabonese surnames, highlighting their cultural significance and statistical data, publ | 2026 | 28K | #2 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 750 | #1,399 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 354 | #3 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #32,893 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #18,300 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #95 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2021 | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Koumba?
- We estimate roughly 55 people bear Koumba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Koumba have the most bearers?
- Koumba is most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is most often spelled koumba.
- How common is Koumba compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Koumba is the 2nd most common surname of 6,449 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Koumba” — the 2nd most common surname in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.