Bougoum Surname
Approximately 4,203 people bear this surname
Bougoum Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 4,148 | 1:4,424 | 521 |
| Ivory Coast | 49 | 1:470,841 | 15,263 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Bougoum (64) may also be a first name.
Bougoum Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bougoum Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bougoum occurs in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bougoum? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bougoum is the 110,562nd most widely held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,733,891 people. The last name Bougoum is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Bougoum reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 89 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bougoum is also the 1,223,525th most frequently used first name world-wide, held by 64 people.
The last name Bougoum is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 4,148 people, or 1 in 4,424. In Burkina Faso Bougoum is most prevalent in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 47 percent are found, Nord Region, where 17 percent are found and Centre Region, where 12 percent are found. Aside from Burkina Faso it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Cameroon, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Bougoum
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