Baoula Surname
Approximately 318 people bear this surname
Baoula Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 276 | 1:66,493 | 2,579 |
| Benin | 36 | 1:287,100 | 24,014 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Baoula (21) may also be a first name.
Baoula Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Baoula Come From? nationality or country of origin
Baoula occurs more in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Baoula? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 857,026th most commonly held last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 22,916,811 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Baoula are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 87 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Baoula is also the 2,368,944th most common given name throughout the world, borne by 21 people.
The surname Baoula is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 276 people, or 1 in 66,493. In Burkina Faso it is most frequent in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 83 percent reside, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 13 percent reside and Centre Region, where 3 percent reside. Barring Burkina Faso it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 11 percent reside and Niger, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Baoula
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