Bouwe Surname
Approximately 1,341 people bear this surname
Bouwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Cameroon | 377 | 1:55,090 | 7,134 |
| Niger | 144 | 1:133,278 | 5,064 |
| DR Congo | 116 | 1:636,893 | 47,292 |
| Papua New Guinea | 55 | 1:148,249 | 20,445 |
| Netherlands | 46 | 1:367,113 | 40,368 |
| Benin | 30 | 1:344,520 | 26,827 |
| Suriname | 26 | 1:21,254 | 4,689 |
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Bouwé (3) are calculated separately.
Bouwe (867) may also be a first name.
Bouwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bouwe (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﺍ) is borne by more people in Togo than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Bouwé. Click here to see other possible spellings of Bouwe.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouwe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 286,496th most commonly used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 5,434,412 people. Bouwe occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Bouwe live; 55 percent live in West Africa and 42 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bouwe is also the 276,394th most common first name throughout the world. It is borne by 867 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Togo, where it is carried by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Barring Togo Bouwe is found in 17 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 28 percent live and Niger, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bouwe Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bouwe in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﺍ | bwa | 25 |
| ﺑﻮ | bw | 25 |
| ﺑﻮﻭ | bww | 12.5 |
| ﺃﺑﻮ | abw | 12.5 |
| ﺑﻮﻩ | bwh | 12.5 |
| ﺍﺑﻮ | abw | 12.5 |
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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 Bouwe
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