Booyen Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Booyen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Booyen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Booyen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Booyen has its highest incidence in South Africa. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Booyen? popularity and diffusion
Booyen is the 8,968,613th most commonly held surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 50 percent of Booyen are found; 50 percent are found in Southern Africa and 50 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequent in South Africa, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 27,088,852. In South Africa Booyen is primarily concentrated in: Gauteng, where 50 percent are found and Western Cape, where 50 percent are found. Not including South Africa it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 25 percent are found and Thailand, where 25 percent are found.
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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 Booyen
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