Boukane Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Boukane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 84 | 1:48,748 | 3,603 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
Boukane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boukane Come From? nationality or country of origin
Boukane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﺎﻥ) is carried by more people in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Boukane.
How Common Is The Last Name Boukane? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,746,159th most numerous last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 66,250,417 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Boukane are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 78 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Boukane is most frequently occurring in Mauritania, where it is carried by 84 people, or 1 in 48,748. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Assaba Region, where 58 percent live, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 40 percent live and Trarza Region, where 1 percent live. Not including Mauritania Boukane is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 14 percent live and Morocco, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Boukane Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Boukane in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﺎﻥ | bkan | 54.55 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﺎﻥ | bwkan | 31.82 |
| ﺑﻮﻛﺎﻧﻪ | bwkanh | 9.09 |
| ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﻥ | albkan | 4.55 |
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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 Boukane
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