Buffevant Surname

1,931,261st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 93 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Buffevant Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Buffevant Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France701:948,896108,010
Argentina221:1,942,88297,983
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

Buffevant Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Buffevant Come From? nationality or country of origin

Buffevant is held by more people in France than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Buffevant.

How Common Is The Last Name Buffevant? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,931,261st most prevalent surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 78,360,709 people. The surname Buffevant is predominantly found in Europe, where 76 percent of Buffevant live; 76 percent live in Western Europe and 76 percent live in Gallo-Europe.

The surname is most frequently used in France, where it is borne by 70 people, or 1 in 948,896. In France it is primarily found in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 87 percent live, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 11 percent live and Occitanie, where 1 percent live. Aside from France this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 24 percent live and Switzerland, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Buffavand78166/
Bevavente671/
Bevevento564/
Pfaffenhut531/
Bevevinuto531/
Bevevenutti501/

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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 Buffevant
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