Boca Surname
Approximately 27,017 people bear this surname
Boca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 13,596 | 1:2,005 | 500 |
| Romania | 8,694 | 1:2,309 | 311 |
| Philippines | 1,463 | 1:69,199 | 11,865 |
| Italy | 765 | 1:79,943 | 13,959 |
| Argentina | 298 | 1:143,434 | 12,138 |
| United States | 297 | 1:1,220,400 | 86,581 |
| France | 262 | 1:253,522 | 39,145 |
| India | 259 | 1:2,961,642 | 89,150 |
| Brazil | 180 | 1:1,189,302 | 41,172 |
| Croatia | 149 | 1:28,380 | 5,853 |
| Ivory Coast | 142 | 1:162,473 | 7,433 |
| Peru | 114 | 1:278,808 | 10,879 |
| Canada | 110 | 1:334,960 | 30,494 |
| England | 92 | 1:605,631 | 36,119 |
| Indonesia | 69 | 1:1,916,655 | 121,671 |
| Belgium | 53 | 1:216,918 | 27,806 |
| Grenada | 46 | 1:2,359 | 388 |
| Moldova | 44 | 1:80,940 | 10,342 |
| Australia | 44 | 1:613,539 | 43,545 |
| Serbia | 42 | 1:170,118 | 11,141 |
| Dominican Republic | 39 | 1:267,511 | 9,432 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 29 | 1:47,034 | 4,189 |
| South Africa | 21 | 1:2,579,891 | 103,459 |
| Taiwan | 17 | 1:1,379,103 | 9,281 |
| Mexico | 15 | 1:8,275,080 | 36,578 |
| Thailand | 15 | 1:4,709,223 | 352,754 |
| Spain | 10 | 1:4,675,204 | 78,608 |
| Greece | 10 | 1:1,107,979 | 84,839 |
| Germany | 10 | 1:8,050,546 | 248,660 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Denmark | 9 | 1:627,191 | 36,734 |
| Venezuela | 9 | 1:3,356,009 | 33,931 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| Israel | 8 | 1:1,069,704 | 62,476 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| Colombia | 8 | 1:5,971,759 | 20,087 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Chile | 5 | 1:3,523,295 | 39,650 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Latvia | 4 | 1:512,512 | 30,386 |
| Montenegro | 3 | 1:213,188 | 6,121 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| Uruguay | 2 | 1:1,715,879 | 35,955 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
The alternate forms: Boça (54), Boča (17), Bôca (1) & Bóca (1) are calculated separately.
Boca (202) may also be a first name.
Boca Demographics
Average Male Boca Height
176.38 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Boca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boca Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Boca occurs more in Mozambique more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Boça, Boča, Bôca or Bóca. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Boca? popularity and diffusion
The last name Boca is the 20,254th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 269,739 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 51 percent of Boca live; 50 percent live in Southern Africa and 50 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa. It is also the 637,340th most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 202 people.
The last name is most common in Mozambique, where it is held by 13,596 people, or 1 in 2,005. Excluding Mozambique this surname exists in 76 countries. It also occurs in Romania, where 32 percent reside and The Philippines, where 5 percent reside.
Boca Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Boca has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Boca last name grew 1,563 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Boca Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Boca last name are 29.5% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 76.27% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Boca earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 48.23% less than the national average, earning €15,548 per year; in Peru they earn 3.84% less than the national average, earning S/. 18,641 per year; in South Africa they earn 82.07% less than the national average, earning R 42,612 per year; in Colombia they earn 27.44% less than the national average, earning $16,472,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 6.62% more than the national average, earning $46,006 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.29% less than the national average, earning $48,050 CAD per year.
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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
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