Bogou Surname
Approximately 517 people bear this surname
Bogou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 329 | 1:70,125 | 3,951 |
| Benin | 101 | 1:102,333 | 11,607 |
| Niger | 47 | 1:408,341 | 11,310 |
| Papua New Guinea | 18 | 1:452,984 | 57,838 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bogou (221) may also be a first name.
Bogou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bogou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bogou is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bogou? popularity and diffusion
Bogou is the 601,015th most numerous surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 14,095,833 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Bogou live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 59 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 606,684th most frequently occurring first name globally, borne by 221 people.
The surname Bogou is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 329 people, or 1 in 70,125. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 35 percent are found, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 20 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 20 percent are found and Niger, where 9 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 Bogou
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