Boame Surname
Approximately 1,351 people bear this surname
Boame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,247 | 1:21,669 | 2,663 |
| Ivory Coast | 65 | 1:354,942 | 12,641 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
The alternate forms: Boamé (1) are calculated separately.
Boame (55) may also be a first name.
Boame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boame Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Boame is borne by more people in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Boamé. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boame? popularity and diffusion
The surname Boame is the 284,799th most frequent last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 5,394,186 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Boame live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,336,256th most widely held first name worldwide. It is borne by 55 people.
Boame is most widely held in Ghana, where it is carried by 1,247 people, or 1 in 21,669. Excluding Ghana this surname occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 5 percent live and The DR Congo, where 2 percent live.
Boame Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Boame has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Boame last name fell 73 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 Boame
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