Bouai Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Bouai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 90 | 1:90,597 | 12,060 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Bouai (357) may also be a first name.
Bouai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bouai is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,701,480th most widely held last name on earth, held by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. The last name Bouai is mostly found in Oceania, where 78 percent of Bouai live; 78 percent live in Oceania Islands and 78 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Bouai is also the 461,021st most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 357 people.
The last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 90 people, or 1 in 90,597. In Papua New Guinea Bouai is most frequent in: Bougainville, where 97 percent reside, Central, where 1 percent reside and Jiwaka, where 1 percent reside. Outside of Papua New Guinea this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 8 percent reside and Niger, where 6 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
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