Abouga Surname
Approximately 543 people bear this surname
Abouga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 423 | 1:43,386 | 2,087 |
| Cameroon | 79 | 1:262,900 | 25,427 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Abouga (1,282) may also be a first name.
Abouga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Abouga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Abouga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺑﻚ) is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Abouga? popularity and diffusion
The surname Abouga is the 578,557th most frequent family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 13,420,895 people. The last name Abouga occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Abouga are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 77 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 220,154th most widely held first name internationally, held by 1,282 people.
The last name Abouga is most commonly used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 423 people, or 1 in 43,386. In Burkina Faso Abouga is mostly concentrated in: Centre-Sud Region, where 56 percent are found, Centre Region, where 36 percent are found and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 4 percent are found. Aside from Burkina Faso this last name is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 15 percent are found and Niger, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Abouga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Abouga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺑﻚ | abk | 57.14 |
| ﺁﺑﻜﻪ | abkh | 28.57 |
| ﺍﺑﻚ | abk | 14.29 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Abouga
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