Bokoun Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Bokoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 62 | 1:166,703 | 16,738 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Burkina Faso | 6 | 1:3,058,683 | 18,466 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
Bokoun (71) may also be a first name.
Bokoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bokoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bokoun is found most frequently in Benin. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Bokoun.
How Common Is The Last Name Bokoun? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,106,139th most frequently held last name globally It is held by around 1 in 91,094,324 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Bokoun live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 85 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,152,838th most prevalent first name worldwide, held by 71 people.
The surname Bokoun is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 62 people, or 1 in 166,703. In Benin Bokoun is primarily found in: Kouffo Department, where 95 percent reside, Collines Department, where 2 percent reside and Mono Department, where 2 percent reside. Not including Benin this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 11 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 8 percent reside.
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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 Bokoun
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