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
Boafor is more frequently found in Ghana than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boafor? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 622,538th most commonly used last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 14,782,040 people. This last name 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.
This surname is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is borne by 485 people, or 1 in 55,713. Excluding Ghana it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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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