Mbemba
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mbemba is a surname, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 15th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and Swahili, 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 M'Bemba in GN Guinea.
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●
- French5.4K68%
- Swahili1.1K13%
- English5727%
- German1742%
- Portuguese1472%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 5,351 | 68% |
| Swahili | 1,058 | 13% |
| English | 572 | 7% |
| German | 174 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 147 | 2% |
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●
- Monzalé Mbembab. 1978CDCongolese handball coach and player
- Ben Mbembab. 1982BEBelgian association football player
- Rudy Mbembab. 1987SESwedish basketball player (born 1987)
- Pieter Mbembab. 1988CDBelgian professional footballer
- Chancel Mbembab. 1994CDCongolese association football player
- Nolan Mbembab. 1995FRCongolese and French footballer
- Emmanuel Mbembab. 2008FRFrench footballer
- Merveille MbembaCDDR Congolese footballer
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mbemba?
- We estimate roughly 216 people bear Mbemba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mbemba have the most bearers?
- Mbemba is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled mbemba.
- How common is Mbemba compared with other names?
- In the Congo - Kinshasa, Mbemba is the 15th most common surname of 42,172 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mbembaThe 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, “Mbemba” — the 15th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.