Bounama Surname
Approximately 1,016 people bear this surname
Bounama Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 861 | 1:44,868 | 7,892 |
| Mauritania | 106 | 1:38,631 | 3,020 |
| France | 36 | 1:1,845,076 | 161,051 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
The alternate forms: Bounàma (1) are calculated separately.
Bounama (3,133) may also be a first name.
Bounama Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bounama Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bounama (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻧﻌﺎﻣﻪ) occurs more in Algeria more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Bounàma. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bounama? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 357,252nd most widely held last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 7,172,781 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Bounama live; 85 percent live in North Africa and 85 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 128,628th most common forename throughout the world. It is borne by 3,133 people.
The surname Bounama is most prevalent in Algeria, where it is carried by 861 people, or 1 in 44,868. In Algeria it is mostly found in: Skikda Province, where 54 percent live, Mila Province, where 30 percent live and Blida Province, where 8 percent live. Other than Algeria this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 10 percent live and France, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bounama Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bounama in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻧﻌﺎﻣﻪ | bwnamh | 67.86 |
| ﺑﻮﻧﻌﺎﻡ | bwnam | 17.86 |
| ﺑﻮﻧﺎﻣﺎ | bwnama | 7.14 |
| ﺑﻮﺍﻧﻌﺎﻣﻪ | bwanamh | 3.57 |
| ﺑﻮﺍﻧﻌﺎﻡ | bwanam | 3.57 |
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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 Bounama
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