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
The last name Bourgou is most common in Burkina Faso. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bourgou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 29,160th most prevalent family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 395,998 people. The surname Bourgou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bourgou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 790,880th most common first name world-wide, held by 137 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 18,289 people, or 1 in 1,003. In Burkina Faso it is most frequent in: Est Region, where 82 percent are found, Centre-Nord Region, where 8 percent are found and Sahel Region, where 7 percent are found. Beside Burkina Faso it exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 0 percent are found and Cameroon, where 0 percent are found.
Bourgou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Bourgou has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held 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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