Buruya Surname
Approximately 284 people bear this surname
Buruya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 189 | 1:280,114 | 21,957 |
| DR Congo | 89 | 1:830,108 | 57,152 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Buruya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buruya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Buruya is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Buruya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 928,396th most commonly used surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 25,660,373 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Buruya are found; 67 percent are found in East Africa and 67 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
It is most numerous in Tanzania, where it is carried by 189 people, or 1 in 280,114. In Tanzania Buruya is most common in: Mara Region, where 65 percent reside, Arusha Region, where 34 percent reside and Mwanza Region, where 1 percent reside. Besides Tanzania this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 31 percent reside and India, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Buruya
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