Bougue Surname
Approximately 696 people bear this surname
Bougue Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 251 | 1:264,632 | 40,776 |
| Cameroon | 234 | 1:88,757 | 10,694 |
| Benin | 113 | 1:91,466 | 10,568 |
| Mauritania | 75 | 1:54,598 | 3,928 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Bougue (557) may also be a first name.
Bougue Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bougue Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bougue (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﻪ) is more frequently found in France than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bougue? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 479,498th most commonly used family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 10,470,612 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 63 percent of Bougue live; 49 percent live in West Africa and 36 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 356,380th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 557 people.
The surname is most commonly held in France, where it is borne by 251 people, or 1 in 264,632. In France Bougue is most frequent in: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 59 percent are found, Occitanie, where 15 percent are found and Pays de la Loire, where 7 percent are found. Excluding France this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 34 percent are found and Benin, where 16 percent are found.
Bougue Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Bougue has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Bougue surname decreased 57 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bougue Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bougue in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﻪ | bkh | 23.53 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻲ | bwky | 23.53 |
| ﺑﻚ | bk | 20.59 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻰ | bwky | 14.71 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﻪ | bwkh | 14.71 |
| ﺑﻮﻙ | bwk | 2.94 |
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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 Bougue
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