Bafou Surname
Approximately 741 people bear this surname
Bafou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| Congo | 65 | 1:76,755 | 6,702 |
| Cameroon | 63 | 1:329,668 | 30,059 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bafou (258) may also be a first name.
Bafou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bafou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bafou is borne by more people in Chad than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Bafou.
How Common Is The Last Name Bafou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bafou is the 456,743rd most commonly used last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 9,834,745 people. Bafou occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Bafou reside; 81 percent reside in West Africa and 78 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 554,411th most frequently held forename globally. It is borne by 258 people.
It is most widely held in Chad, where it is borne by 578 people, or 1 in 23,516. Barring Chad Bafou occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 9 percent are found and Cameroon, where 9 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Bafou
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