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
The last name Bacoum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺎﻛﻮﻡ) is held by more people in Senegal than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bacoum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,100,440th most frequently held last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bacoum live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Bacoum is most frequently occurring in Senegal, where it is borne by 33 people, or 1 in 441,798. In Senegal it is most numerous in: Matam Region, where 33 percent reside, Tambacounda Region, where 27 percent reside and Saint Louis Region, where 18 percent reside. Beside Senegal this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 8 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 5 percent reside.
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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