Buba Surname
Approximately 159,610 people bear this surname
Buba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 145,262 | 1:1,219 | 160 |
| Cameroon | 3,495 | 1:5,943 | 722 |
| DR Congo | 2,292 | 1:32,234 | 4,013 |
| Angola | 1,972 | 1:13,686 | 1,647 |
| Gambia | 1,470 | 1:1,308 | 173 |
| Poland | 610 | 1:62,309 | 9,783 |
| Brazil | 543 | 1:394,244 | 15,036 |
| Philippines | 526 | 1:192,468 | 30,602 |
| Russia | 410 | 1:351,520 | 34,823 |
| Indonesia | 409 | 1:323,348 | 28,355 |
| India | 250 | 1:3,068,262 | 91,248 |
| Somalia | 245 | 1:54,906 | 2,420 |
| South Africa | 225 | 1:240,790 | 24,675 |
| United States | 213 | 1:1,701,685 | 112,840 |
| Ukraine | 206 | 1:220,984 | 29,463 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Albania | 158 | 1:18,443 | 3,197 |
| Tanzania | 106 | 1:499,449 | 33,339 |
| Turkey | 103 | 1:755,548 | 37,701 |
| Germany | 102 | 1:789,269 | 58,234 |
| France | 95 | 1:699,187 | 88,446 |
| England | 81 | 1:687,877 | 39,238 |
| Czechia | 79 | 1:134,601 | 21,287 |
| Pakistan | 77 | 1:2,320,050 | 20,958 |
| Northern Cyprus | 73 | 1:4,370 | 810 |
| Belarus | 53 | 1:179,265 | 23,543 |
| Belgium | 48 | 1:239,513 | 29,891 |
| Canada | 38 | 1:969,621 | 73,252 |
| Romania | 34 | 1:590,526 | 42,844 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Kazakhstan | 21 | 1:842,024 | 52,736 |
| Australia | 20 | 1:1,349,785 | 70,688 |
| Kenya | 15 | 1:3,078,660 | 38,128 |
| Taiwan | 14 | 1:1,674,625 | 11,030 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Georgia | 11 | 1:340,504 | 14,961 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| Israel | 6 | 1:1,426,272 | 75,466 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Azerbaijan | 6 | 1:1,608,187 | 20,863 |
| Slovenia | 6 | 1:414,612 | 18,975 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| Iceland | 5 | 1:76,018 | 4,442 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Croatia | 5 | 1:845,721 | 48,179 |
| Iran | 4 | 1:19,195,631 | 219,601 |
| Ireland | 4 | 1:1,177,235 | 16,494 |
| Somaliland | 4 | 1:875,046 | 1,198 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Mongolia | 4 | 1:706,322 | 11,365 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Armenia | 3 | 1:976,727 | 13,552 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1:2,326,302 | 54,089 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
The alternate forms: Bubă (34) are calculated separately.
Buba (103,589) may also be a first name.
Buba Demographics
Average Buba Salary in
United States
$51,918 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Buba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Buba (Georgian: ბუბა, Hindi: बूबा, Marathi: बुबा, Oriya: ବୁବା, Russian: Буба) occurs most in Nigeria. It can also appear as a variant: Bubă. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Buba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,511th most numerous surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 45,658 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Buba are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 9,876th most frequent first name internationally It is held by 103,589 people.
The surname Buba is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is carried by 145,262 people, or 1 in 1,219. In Nigeria Buba is most numerous in: Adamawa, where 20 percent are found, Borno, where 16 percent are found and Gombe, where 14 percent are found. Beside Nigeria it occurs in 92 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 2 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found.
Buba Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Buba has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Buba last name expanded 1,936 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Buba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Buba surname is principally Orthodox (81%) in Russia, Orthodox (75%) in Belarus, Christian (100%) in Kenya, Muslim (81%) in Nigeria and Orthodox (88%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Buba last name are 18.86% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 72.09% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Buba earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 53.79% less than the national average, earning R 109,812 per year; in United States they earn 20.32% more than the national average, earning $51,918 USD per year and in Canada they earn 23.33% more than the national average, earning $61,275 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Buba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Buba in the Georgian language | ||
| ბუბა | buba | - |
| Buba in the Oriya language | ||
| ବୁବା | buba | - |
| Buba in the Marathi language | ||
| बुबा | buba | 90.57 |
| बूबा | buba | 9.43 |
| Buba in the Hindi language | ||
| बूबा | buba | 64.52 |
| बुबा | buba | 33.87 |
| Buba in the Russian language | ||
| Буба | buba | - |
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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 Buba
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