Bovas Surname
Approximately 285 people bear this surname
Bovas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 139 | 1:5,518,456 | 133,501 |
| France | 71 | 1:935,531 | 107,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 43 | 1:213,076 | 14,246 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Bovas (906) may also be a first name.
Bovas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bovas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bovas (Hindi: बोवास, Marathi: बोवस) is most common in India. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bovas? popularity and diffusion
Bovas is the 926,175th most commonly used family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 25,570,337 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 68 percent of Bovas reside; 49 percent reside in South Asia and 49 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 269,579th most numerous first name at a global level. It is borne by 906 people.
The surname Bovas is most frequently used in India, where it is borne by 139 people, or 1 in 5,518,456. In India Bovas is primarily concentrated in: Kerala, where 76 percent are found, Delhi, where 6 percent are found and Karnataka, where 6 percent are found. Beside India this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in France, where 25 percent are found and The United Arab Emirates, where 15 percent are found.
Bovas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Bovas has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Bovas surname contracted 60 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bovas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bovas in the Marathi language | ||
| बोवस | bovasa | - |
| Bovas in the Hindi language | ||
| बोवास | bovasa | 50 |
| बोवस | bovasa | 50 |
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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 Bovas
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