Bohanon Surname

192,348th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,189 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Bohanon Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bohanon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,1781:166,41816,885
Panama31:1,304,08613,647
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Myanmar11:51,937,9852,166
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Vietnam11:92,646,0548,382
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland21:2,214,93333,683
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4271:117,60811,536

Bohanon Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bohanon Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Bohanon is more commonly found in The United States than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Bohanon click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Bohanon? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 192,348th most widely held surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 3,329,167 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Bohanon are found; 99 percent are found in North America and 99 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The last name Bohanon is most frequently held in The United States, where it is borne by 2,178 people, or 1 in 166,418. In The United States Bohanon is mostly concentrated in: Texas, where 11 percent are found, Georgia, where 9 percent are found and Oklahoma, where 8 percent are found. Outside of The United States this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Panama, where 0 percent are found and Thailand, where 0 percent are found.

Bohanon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Bohanon has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Bohanon surname expanded 510 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Bohanon Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Bohanon surname are 8.25% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.02% registered to vote for the political party.

Bohanon earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 13.66% less than the national average, earning $37,253 USD 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
  • 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 Bohanon
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