Bounass Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Bounass Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 12 | 1:341,239 | 14,334 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
Bounass (138) may also be a first name.
Bounass Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bounass Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bounass (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻧﺎﺱ) is found most in Mauritania. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bounass? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,908,606th most widely held surname on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name Bounass occurs predominantly in Africa, where 81 percent of Bounass live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 787,636th most widespread given name globally, borne by 138 people.
This surname is most common in Mauritania, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 341,239. In Mauritania Bounass is most frequent in: Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 75 percent are found, Hodh Chargui Region, where 17 percent are found and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 8 percent are found. Other than Mauritania this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 13 percent are found and Algeria, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bounass Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bounass in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻧﺎﺱ | bwnas | 43.75 |
| ﺑﻮﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ | bwalnas | 34.38 |
| ﺑﻨﺎﺱ | bnas | 15.63 |
| ﺍﺑﻮﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ | abwalnas | 3.13 |
| ﺑﻮ | bw | 3.13 |
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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 Bounass
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