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
The surname Bouga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﻪ, Hindi: बौगा) occurs more in Morocco more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouga? popularity and diffusion
It is the 201,090th most frequently occurring last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,513,764 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Bouga reside; 37 percent reside in North Africa and 37 percent reside in Mahgreb. It is also the 179,687th most common forename worldwide, held by 1,807 people.
Bouga is most frequent in Morocco, where it is held by 750 people, or 1 in 45,968. Other than Morocco Bouga occurs in 31 countries. It is also found in Greece, where 25 percent live and Cameroon, where 13 percent live.
Bouga Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Bouga has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Bouga surname fell 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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