Boughe Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Boughe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 26 | 1:157,495 | 8,595 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Lebanon | 3 | 1:1,879,028 | 22,073 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Boughé (14) are calculated separately.
Boughe Demographics
Boughe Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Boughe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boughe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Boughe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻛﻰ) is most common in Mauritania. It can appear in the variant forms: Boughé. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Boughe? popularity and diffusion
Boughe is the 2,808,717th most frequently held last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 151,823,873 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 88 percent of Boughe live; 60 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Boughe is most frequently used in Mauritania, where it is borne by 26 people, or 1 in 157,495. In Mauritania Boughe is mostly concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 88 percent are found, Gorgol Region, where 8 percent are found and Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 4 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and Lebanon, where 6 percent are found.
Boughe Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is chiefly Melkite Greek Catholic (100%) in Lebanon.
Phonetically Similar Names
Boughe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Boughe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻛﻰ | bwky | 40 |
| ﺑﻖ | bq | 26.67 |
| ﺑﻮﻕ | bwq | 13.33 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻲ | bwky | 13.33 |
| ﺑﻜﻪ | bkh | 6.67 |
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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 Boughe
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