Boweya Surname
Approximately 479 people bear this surname
Boweya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 472 | 1:156,525 | 16,251 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Boweya (17) may also be a first name.
Boweya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Boweya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Boweya is more frequently found in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Boweya.
How Common Is The Last Name Boweya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Boweya is the 636,210th most commonly used last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 15,214,083 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Boweya live; 99 percent live in Central Africa and 99 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most commonly used first name on earth It is held by 17 people.
This last name is most numerous in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 472 people, or 1 in 156,525. Barring The DR Congo it is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 1 percent live and India, where 0 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
- 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 Boweya
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