Bokou Surname
Approximately 829 people bear this surname
Bokou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 248 | 1:44,677 | 7,282 |
| Benin | 141 | 1:73,302 | 8,816 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Burkina Faso | 105 | 1:174,782 | 4,105 |
| Ivory Coast | 105 | 1:219,726 | 9,142 |
| Cameroon | 84 | 1:247,251 | 24,294 |
| Congo | 10 | 1:498,910 | 11,250 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Bokou (106) may also be a first name.
Bokou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bokou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bokou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺎﻛﻮ) occurs more in Greece more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Bokou.
How Common Is The Last Name Bokou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bokou is the 418,906th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 8,790,767 people. Bokou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 63 percent of Bokou reside; 37 percent reside in West Africa and 37 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 915,176th most widely held first name at a global level, held by 106 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Greece, where it is borne by 248 people, or 1 in 44,677. In Greece Bokou is mostly found in: Attica, where 27 percent reside, Peloponnese, where 19 percent reside and Epirus, where 18 percent reside. Beside Greece it exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 17 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 15 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bokou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bokou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺎﻛﻮ | bakw | - |
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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 Bokou
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