Bawba Surname

3,274,477th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 36 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Mauritania
Highest density in:
Mauritania

Bawba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bawba Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Mauritania341:120,4377,101
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

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

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Bawbaya834/
Babba8011,728/
Bowba802,643/
Bewba80828/
Bawbe8015/
Babva804/
Bawby801/
Babbea7395/
Baabba7380/
Bowbah7334/
Babbai7312/
Bouwba7311/
Baibba7310/
Bavbas7310/
Bowbat737/
Babbay736/
Babbaa735/
Bewbah734/
Baybba733/
Bahbba731/
Baabva731/
Babbha731/
Bawbey730/
Bowbatt6735/
Babbhai671/
Baabbah671/
Bawbish671/

Bawba Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Bawba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺑﻮﺏbwb60
ﺑﻮﺑﻪbwbh40

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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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