Bokoum Surname
Approximately 11,365 people bear this surname
Bokoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 9,465 | 1:1,939 | 277 |
| Guinea | 1,054 | 1:11,228 | 359 |
| Mali | 387 | 1:43,848 | 1,206 |
| Senegal | 232 | 1:62,842 | 872 |
| Mauritania | 87 | 1:47,067 | 3,494 |
| United States | 36 | 1:10,068,304 | 413,125 |
| Ivory Coast | 32 | 1:720,976 | 19,991 |
| France | 16 | 1:4,151,420 | 237,746 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| Gambia | 9 | 1:213,717 | 372 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Bokoum (36) may also be a first name.
Bokoum Demographics
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Bokoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bokoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bokoum (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻛﻢ) has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bokoum? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 45,635th most commonly used family name globally, held by around 1 in 641,227 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Bokoum live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 80 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bokoum is also the 1,717,090th most frequently occurring given name in the world. It is borne by 36 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 9,465 people, or 1 in 1,939. In Burkina Faso Bokoum is most frequent in: Sahel Region, where 72 percent live, Est Region, where 9 percent live and Centre-Nord Region, where 9 percent live. Not including Burkina Faso this surname is found in 20 countries. It is also found in Guinea, where 9 percent live and Mali, where 3 percent live.
Bokoum Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Bokoum are 26.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 80% registered with the party.
Bokoum earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 36.03% more than the national average, earning $58,695 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bokoum Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bokoum in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻛﻢ | bwkm | 96.55 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻮﻡ | bwkwm | 3.45 |
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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 Bokoum
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