Bouca Surname
Approximately 507 people bear this surname
Bouca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 343 | 1:30,133 | 3,978 |
| Portugal | 75 | 1:138,910 | 6,177 |
| Brazil | 32 | 1:6,689,823 | 158,565 |
| France | 27 | 1:2,460,101 | 186,232 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Haiti | 2 | 1:5,341,954 | 21,336 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Bouça (419) are calculated separately.
Bouca (444) may also be a first name.
Bouca Demographics
Average Bouca Salary in
South Africa
R 115,680
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Bouca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouca Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bouca (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻛﺎ) is borne by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Bouça. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouca? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 609,992nd most frequently held last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 14,373,858 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 72 percent of Bouca reside; 69 percent reside in West Africa and 68 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bouca is also the 406,780th most commonly used given name world-wide, held by 444 people.
This last name is most numerous in Benin, where it is carried by 343 people, or 1 in 30,133. In Benin it is mostly found in: Borgou Department, where 100 percent live and Kouffo Department, where 0 percent live. Not including Benin this last name exists in 13 countries. It is also common in Portugal, where 15 percent live and Brazil, where 6 percent live.
Bouca Last Name Statistics demography
Bouca earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 51.32% less than the national average, earning R 115,680 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bouca Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bouca in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻛﺎ | bwka | - |
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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 Bouca
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