Bokwen Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Bokwen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Bokwen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bokwen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bokwen has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bokwen? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,957,383rd most numerous surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 291,501,837 people. Bokwen occurs mostly in Oceania, where 76 percent of Bokwen live; 76 percent live in Oceania Islands and 76 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 429,143. In Papua New Guinea it is most numerous in: East Sepik, where 100 percent reside. Beside Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent reside and Cameroon, where 4 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
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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 Bokwen
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