Bourgou Surname
Approximately 18,403 people bear this surname
Bourgou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 18,289 | 1:1,003 | 157 |
| Greece | 37 | 1:299,454 | 43,754 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Niger | 17 | 1:1,128,942 | 24,295 |
| Tunisia | 17 | 1:35,919 | 5,218 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Bourgou (137) may also be a first name.
Bourgou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bourgou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bourgou occurs most in Burkina Faso. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bourgou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bourgou is the 29,160th most frequently held last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 395,998 people. Bourgou is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Bourgou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bourgou is also the 790,880th most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 137 people.
Bourgou is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 18,289 people, or 1 in 1,003. In Burkina Faso it is most prevalent in: Est Region, where 82 percent live, Centre-Nord Region, where 8 percent live and Sahel Region, where 7 percent live. Barring Burkina Faso this surname occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in Greece, where 0 percent live and Cameroon, where 0 percent live.
Bourgou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Bourgou has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Bourgou surname declined 33 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Bourgou
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