Bogwa Surname
Approximately 300 people bear this surname
Bogwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 297 | 1:178,255 | 15,552 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Bogwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bogwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bogwa is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bogwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 893,754th most commonly used surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 24,291,820 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bogwa live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 99 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is held by 297 people, or 1 in 178,255. In Tanzania Bogwa is most frequent in: Morogoro Region, where 75 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 23 percent live and Dodoma Region, where 0 percent live. Excluding Tanzania this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent live and The DR Congo, where 0 percent live.
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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 Bogwa
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