M'Bemba
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
M'Bemba is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 15th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and French (Guinea), written in the Latin script.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 1.4K◐
- FRFrance1 in 942K
- CGCongo - Brazzaville1 in 545
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈216 ●
- Sources
- 140 ●
- 1 in 195K ◐
across 8 countries
7.0K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mbemba in FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa, BE Belgium and 10 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #15 | 1,900 | 2K rec. | — | 5 | Mbemba | 18 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 239 rec. | — | listed | Mbemba | 49 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #6 | 179 | 190 rec. | — | — | Mbemba | 15 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 148 | 47 rec. | — | — | Mbemba | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 84 | 95 rec. | — | — | Mbemba | 8 |
| FR France | — | 72 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 942K | 72 | Mbemba | 140 |
| AO Angola | #609 | 60 | 99 rec. | — | 1 | Mbemba | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 50 | 21 rec. | — | — | Mbemba | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 43△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 195K | 43 | — | 2 |
| KE Kenya | — | 38 | 4 rec. | — | — | Mbemba | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 31 | 242 rec. | 1 in 378K | 31 | Mbemba | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | 22 rec. | 1 in 425K | 24 | Mbemba | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French54495%
- French (Guinea)61%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)51%
- Czech51%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 544 | 95% |
| French (Guinea) | 6 | 1% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 5 | 1% |
| Czech | 5 | 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●
- M'Bemba Deen CisséGNnot in their usual nameGuinean sociologist and museologist
- M'Bemba TraoréGNnot in their usual nameGuinean politician
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #55,628 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #15 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name M'Bemba?
- We estimate roughly 216 people bear M'Bemba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does M'Bemba have the most bearers?
- M'Bemba is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled mbemba.
- How common is M'Bemba compared with other names?
- In the Congo - Kinshasa, M'Bemba is the 15th most common surname of 42,172 surnames recorded there.
- Is M'Bemba a male or female name?
- M'Bemba is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m'bembaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “M'Bemba” — the 15th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.