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
The surname Boukane (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﺎﻥ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Boukane? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,746,159th most widespread family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 66,250,417 people. The last name Boukane occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Boukane are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 78 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is held by 84 people, or 1 in 48,748. In Mauritania Boukane is most common in: Assaba Region, where 58 percent live, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 40 percent live and Trarza Region, where 1 percent live. Aside from Mauritania this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also found 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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