Buwah Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Buwah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 127 | 1:1,394,825 | 54,286 |
| Liberia | 38 | 1:116,014 | 8,917 |
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Buwah (45) may also be a first name.
Buwah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buwah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Buwah occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Buwah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Buwah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,163,787th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 35,549,004 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Buwah reside; 81 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Buwah is also the 1,504,468th most frequently held first name world-wide. It is borne by 45 people.
The last name Buwah is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 127 people, or 1 in 1,394,825. In Nigeria it is most common in: Plateau, where 93 percent are found, Nasarawa, where 2 percent are found and Lagos, where 2 percent are found. Besides Nigeria it occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 19 percent are found and Cameroon, where 13 percent are found.
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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 Buwah
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