Bawba Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Bawba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 34 | 1:120,437 | 7,101 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bawba (44) may also be a first name.
Bawba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bawba Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bawba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﺏ) is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Bawba click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bawba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,274,477th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname Bawba occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Bawba live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Bawba is also the 1,525,482nd most frequently used first name world-wide, borne by 44 people.
This last name is most common in Mauritania, where it is carried by 34 people, or 1 in 120,437. In Mauritania Bawba is primarily found in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 32 percent reside, Assaba Region, where 26 percent reside and Brakna Region, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Mauritania this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 3 percent reside and The United States, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bawbaya | 83 | 4 | / |
| Babba | 80 | 11,728 | / |
| Bowba | 80 | 2,643 | / |
| Bewba | 80 | 828 | / |
| Bawbe | 80 | 15 | / |
| Babva | 80 | 4 | / |
| Bawby | 80 | 1 | / |
| Babbea | 73 | 95 | / |
| Baabba | 73 | 80 | / |
| Bowbah | 73 | 34 | / |
| Babbai | 73 | 12 | / |
| Bouwba | 73 | 11 | / |
| Baibba | 73 | 10 | / |
| Bavbas | 73 | 10 | / |
| Bowbat | 73 | 7 | / |
| Babbay | 73 | 6 | / |
| Babbaa | 73 | 5 | / |
| Bewbah | 73 | 4 | / |
| Baybba | 73 | 3 | / |
| Bahbba | 73 | 1 | / |
| Baabva | 73 | 1 | / |
| Babbha | 73 | 1 | / |
| Bawbey | 73 | 0 | / |
| Bowbatt | 67 | 35 | / |
| Babbhai | 67 | 1 | / |
| Baabbah | 67 | 1 | / |
| Bawbish | 67 | 1 | / |
Bawba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bawba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﺏ | bwb | 60 |
| ﺑﻮﺑﻪ | bwbh | 40 |
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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 Bawba
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