Buiya Surname
Approximately 883 people bear this surname
Buiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 541 | 1:294,560 | 8,696 |
| India | 324 | 1:2,367,486 | 76,917 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Buiya (3,993) may also be a first name.
Buiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Buiya (Bengali: ভূইয়া, Hindi: बुइया, Marathi: बुईया) occurs most in Bangladesh. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Buiya.
How Common Is The Last Name Buiya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 398,612th most frequently used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 8,253,166 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Buiya are found; 98 percent are found in South Asia and 61 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 110,543rd most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 3,993 people.
It is most frequently used in Bangladesh, where it is held by 541 people, or 1 in 294,560. Other than Bangladesh this last name is found in 7 countries. It is also found in India, where 37 percent are found and Benin, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Buiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Buiya in the Bengali language | ||
| ভূইয়া | bhu'iya | - |
| Buiya in the Marathi language | ||
| बुईया | bu'iya | - |
| Buiya in the Hindi language | ||
| बुइया | bu'iya | 91.04 |
| बुईया | bu'iya | 7.23 |
| बूइया | bu'iya | 0.58 |
| बूईया | bu'iya | 0.29 |
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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 Buiya
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