Buve Surname
Approximately 255 people bear this surname
Buve Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 56 | 1:205,297 | 26,724 |
| Netherlands | 49 | 1:344,636 | 38,971 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Uruguay | 32 | 1:107,242 | 10,337 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| Russia | 16 | 1:9,007,691 | 311,782 |
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Buvé (87) & Buvê (1) are calculated separately.
Buve (36) may also be a first name.
Buve Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buve Come From? nationality or country of origin
Buve (Russian: Бувье) is held by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Buvé or Buvê. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Buve? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,001,271st most commonly occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 28,578,611 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 59 percent of Buve live; 48 percent live in Western Europe and 40 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 1,717,090th most frequently occurring first name in the world, borne by 36 people.
The surname Buve is most frequent in Belgium, where it is carried by 56 people, or 1 in 205,297. In Belgium it is most common in: Flemish Region, where 64 percent live, Walloon Region, where 34 percent live and Brussels Capital Region, where 2 percent live. Barring Belgium this surname is found in 24 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 19 percent live and The DR Congo, where 13 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Buve Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Buve in the Russian language | ||
| Бувье | buve | - |
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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 Buve
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