Bacoum Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Bacoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 33 | 1:441,798 | 2,028 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
Bacoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bacoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bacoum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺎﻛﻮﻡ) is carried by more people in Senegal than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bacoum? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bacoum is the 3,100,440th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bacoum are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 88 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
Bacoum is most numerous in Senegal, where it is carried by 33 people, or 1 in 441,798. In Senegal Bacoum is most common in: Matam Region, where 33 percent are found, Tambacounda Region, where 27 percent are found and Saint Louis Region, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Senegal this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 8 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bacoum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bacoum in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺎﻛﻮﻡ | bakwm | - |
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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 Bacoum
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