Bouwi Surname
Approximately 753 people bear this surname
Bouwi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 735 | 1:9,861 | 2,446 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
Bouwi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bouwi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bouwi occurs more in Togo more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bouwi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Bouwi is the 451,199th most common surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,678,016 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Bouwi live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Bouwi is most commonly occurring in Togo, where it is carried by 735 people, or 1 in 9,861. Other than Togo this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent live.
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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
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