Boafor Surname
Approximately 493 people bear this surname
Boafor Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Boafor Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boafor Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Boafor is found in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boafor? popularity and diffusion
Boafor is the 622,538th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 14,782,040 people. The surname Boafor is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Boafor live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Boafor is most widely held in Ghana, where it is held by 485 people, or 1 in 55,713. Outside of Ghana this surname is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 0 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
- 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 Boafor
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