Boko Surname
Approximately 39,369 people bear this surname
Boko Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 17,566 | 1:588 | 52 |
| Ivory Coast | 5,018 | 1:4,598 | 423 |
| Togo | 3,780 | 1:1,917 | 224 |
| DR Congo | 2,873 | 1:25,715 | 3,227 |
| Indonesia | 1,722 | 1:76,800 | 8,184 |
| India | 965 | 1:794,886 | 35,729 |
| South Africa | 936 | 1:57,882 | 7,340 |
| Nigeria | 863 | 1:205,264 | 12,258 |
| Cameroon | 815 | 1:25,484 | 3,470 |
| Papua New Guinea | 643 | 1:12,681 | 1,181 |
| Malawi | 627 | 1:27,303 | 4,104 |
| Ghana | 623 | 1:43,372 | 4,874 |
| Tanzania | 367 | 1:144,255 | 13,193 |
| Burkina Faso | 338 | 1:54,296 | 2,336 |
| Philippines | 311 | 1:325,525 | 44,983 |
| Croatia | 299 | 1:14,142 | 2,780 |
| Egypt | 275 | 1:334,312 | 21,412 |
| Congo | 202 | 1:24,698 | 2,694 |
| France | 200 | 1:332,114 | 50,174 |
| Zimbabwe | 178 | 1:86,732 | 12,575 |
| Botswana | 138 | 1:15,847 | 3,103 |
| Liberia | 129 | 1:34,175 | 3,193 |
| Niger | 78 | 1:246,052 | 7,845 |
| United States | 51 | 1:7,107,038 | 327,397 |
| Kenya | 40 | 1:1,154,498 | 35,000 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| Thailand | 33 | 1:2,140,556 | 247,258 |
| Uganda | 28 | 1:1,394,260 | 52,673 |
| Solomon Islands | 26 | 1:22,309 | 4,345 |
| Malaysia | 19 | 1:1,552,328 | 64,490 |
| Russia | 17 | 1:8,477,827 | 301,506 |
| Latvia | 17 | 1:120,591 | 17,235 |
| United Arab Emirates | 15 | 1:610,818 | 23,687 |
| Spain | 12 | 1:3,896,003 | 72,236 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Ukraine | 9 | 1:5,058,077 | 228,455 |
| Hungary | 8 | 1:1,227,035 | 53,030 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| Belgium | 6 | 1:1,916,107 | 103,447 |
| Czechia | 5 | 1:2,126,694 | 115,412 |
| Myanmar | 4 | 1:12,984,496 | 1,309 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Samoa | 1 | 1:193,808 | 1,089 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
The alternate forms: Bokó (26) & Bókó (13) are calculated separately.
Boko (7,744) may also be a first name.
Boko Demographics
Boko Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Boko Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boko Come From? nationality or country of origin
Boko (Georgian: ბოკო, Hindi: बोको, Marathi: बोको, Russian: Боко, Tibetan: བོ་ཀོ།) occurs most in Benin. It can occur as: Bokó or Bókó. For other possible spellings of Boko click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boko? popularity and diffusion
It is the 14,151st most commonly used last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 185,109 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Boko live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 72,633rd most frequently used first name at a global level, held by 7,744 people.
This last name is most frequent in Benin, where it is held by 17,566 people, or 1 in 588. In Benin it is most common in: Ouémé Department, where 31 percent reside, Zou Department, where 19 percent reside and Collines Department, where 11 percent reside. Other than Benin this surname occurs in 81 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 13 percent reside and Togo, where 10 percent reside.
Boko Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Boko surname is predominantly Muslim (67%) in Kenya.
The amount Boko earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 45.67% less than the national average, earning R 129,120 per year; in United States they earn 20.29% more than the national average, earning $51,906 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.5% less than the national average, earning $45,956 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Boko Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Boko in the Georgian language | ||
| ბოკო | boko | - |
| Boko in the Hindi language | ||
| बोको | boko | - |
| Boko in the Marathi language | ||
| बोको | boko | 80 |
| बॊकॊ | boko | 20 |
| Boko in the Tibetan language | ||
| བོ་ཀོ། | boko | 66.67 |
| སྦོ་ཀོ། | boko | 33.33 |
| Boko in the Russian language | ||
| Боко | boko | - |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Boko
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