Boffour Surname
Approximately 288 people bear this surname
Boffour Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Finland | 5 | 1:1,099,340 | 45,512 |
Boffour (227) may also be a first name.
Boffour Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boffour Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Boffour is carried by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Boffour.
How Common Is The Last Name Boffour? popularity and diffusion
The surname Boffour is the 919,444th most frequently held family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 25,303,979 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Boffour are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Boffour is also the 596,468th most frequently held first name at a global level, borne by 227 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is borne by 277 people, or 1 in 97,548. Besides Ghana Boffour is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent reside and Finland, where 2 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 Boffour
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