Bawm Surname
Approximately 4,798 people bear this surname
Bawm Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 4,776 | 1:33,366 | 2,090 |
| Myanmar | 9 | 1:5,770,887 | 975 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
Bawm (15) may also be a first name.
Bawm Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bawm Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bawm is borne by more people in Bangladesh than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bawm? popularity and diffusion
Bawm is the 98,780th most widely held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,518,872 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Bawm reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 100 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 15 people.
This last name is most frequent in Bangladesh, where it is held by 4,776 people, or 1 in 33,366. Outside of Bangladesh it exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Myanmar, where 0 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.
Bawm Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Bawm has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Bawm surname decreased 93 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Bawm
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