Bouga Surname
Approximately 2,074 people bear this surname
Bouga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 750 | 1:45,968 | 7,487 |
| Greece | 528 | 1:20,984 | 3,063 |
| Cameroon | 274 | 1:75,800 | 9,382 |
| Niger | 240 | 1:79,967 | 3,475 |
| Burkina Faso | 65 | 1:282,340 | 5,208 |
| France | 58 | 1:1,145,219 | 121,886 |
| Papua New Guinea | 51 | 1:159,877 | 22,106 |
| Mauritania | 24 | 1:170,619 | 9,051 |
| Ivory Coast | 16 | 1:1,441,952 | 30,506 |
| Benin | 14 | 1:738,257 | 40,906 |
| Tunisia | 7 | 1:87,232 | 13,677 |
| Paraguay | 7 | 1:1,033,821 | 9,769 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Moldova | 2 | 1:1,780,684 | 55,103 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
Bouga (1,807) may also be a first name.
Bouga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bouga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﻪ, Hindi: बौगा) is most common in Morocco. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 201,090th most prevalent family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 3,513,764 people. The surname Bouga occurs mostly in Africa, where 67 percent of Bouga live; 37 percent live in North Africa and 37 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 179,687th most widely held first name at a global level, borne by 1,807 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Morocco, where it is held by 750 people, or 1 in 45,968. Outside of Morocco Bouga exists in 31 countries. It is also common in Greece, where 25 percent reside and Cameroon, where 13 percent reside.
Bouga Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Bouga has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Bouga last name declined 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bouga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bouga in the Hindi language | ||
| बौगा | bauga | 50 |
| बोउगा | bo'uga | 50 |
| Bouga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﻪ | bkh | 47.06 |
| ﺑﻚ | bk | 17.65 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻪ | bwkh | 5.88 |
| ﺑﻘﻰ | bqy | 5.88 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﺎ | bwka | 5.88 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻲ | bwky | 5.88 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻰ | bwky | 5.88 |
| ﺑﻘﻲ | bqy | 5.88 |
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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 Bouga
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