Baouba Surname
Approximately 323 people bear this surname
Baouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 309 | 1:13,252 | 1,270 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Baouba (121) may also be a first name.
Baouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Baouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Baouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﺏ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Baouba? popularity and diffusion
The last name Baouba is the 847,909th most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 22,562,062 people. Baouba occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Baouba live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 848,089th most frequently held first name on earth. It is borne by 121 people.
The last name Baouba is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 309 people, or 1 in 13,252. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 20 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent are found and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 11 percent are found. Barring Mauritania this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 4 percent are found and Uganda, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Baouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Baouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﺏ | bwb | 58.12 |
| ﺑﻮﺑﻪ | bwbh | 38.46 |
| ﺑﻮﺑﺔ | bwbt | 1.71 |
| ﺍﺑﻮﺑﺎ | abwba | 0.85 |
| ﺑﻮﺑﺎ | bwba | 0.85 |
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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 Baouba
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