Bouaya Surname
Approximately 175 people bear this surname
Bouaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 148 | 1:33,710 | 3,314 |
| Algeria | 17 | 1:2,272,444 | 44,120 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Bouaya (15) may also be a first name.
Bouaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bouaya is found most frequently in The Congo. It can also occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouaya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,295,379th most commonly used surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 41,643,120 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Bouaya live; 86 percent live in Central Africa and 86 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequent first name on earth It is held by 15 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in The Congo, where it is held by 148 people, or 1 in 33,710. In The Congo it is most prevalent in: Pointe-Noire Department, where 97 percent are found, Cuvette Department, where 3 percent are found and Brazzaville Department, where 1 percent are found. Aside from The Congo Bouaya occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 10 percent are found and Morocco, where 2 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
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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 Bouaya
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