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 most common in Togo. It may also be found in the variant forms: Bouwé. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bouwe is the 286,496th most commonly occurring surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 5,434,412 people. The surname Bouwe is mostly found 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 commonly occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 867 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Togo, where it is borne by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Other than Togo this last name is found in 17 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 28 percent reside and Niger, where 11 percent reside.
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
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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 Bouwe
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