Boufang Surname
Approximately 256 people bear this surname
Boufang Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 245 | 1:84,772 | 10,298 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 9 | 1:126,186 | 322 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Boufang Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boufang Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Boufang is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boufang? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 998,609th most widely held surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 28,466,976 people. The last name Boufang occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Boufang reside; 75 percent reside in Central Africa and 71 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 245 people, or 1 in 84,772. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 30 percent live, West Region, where 20 percent live and Littoral Region, where 19 percent live. Other than Cameroon this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Equatorial Guinea, where 4 percent live and Belgium, where 0 percent live.
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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 Boufang
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