Bounga Surname
Approximately 1,248 people bear this surname
Bounga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 798 | 1:6,252 | 962 |
| Burkina Faso | 226 | 1:81,204 | 2,858 |
| Cameroon | 144 | 1:144,230 | 16,009 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Benin | 11 | 1:939,600 | 46,216 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Bounga (34) may also be a first name.
Bounga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bounga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bounga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻧﻜﺎ) occurs most in The Congo. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bounga? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 303,787th most frequently used last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 5,839,380 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Bounga are found; 78 percent are found in Central Africa and 78 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,775,424th most frequently held first name in the world, held by 34 people.
The surname is most numerous in The Congo, where it is borne by 798 people, or 1 in 6,252. In The Congo Bounga is most numerous in: Kouilou Department, where 47 percent live, Bouenza Department, where 36 percent live and Pointe-Noire Department, where 14 percent live. Other than The Congo Bounga exists in 11 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 18 percent live and Cameroon, where 12 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bounga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bounga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻧﻜﺎ | bwnka | - |
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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 Bounga
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