Buyoya Surname
Approximately 196 people bear this surname
Buyoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Tanzania | 23 | 1:2,301,809 | 48,176 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Uganda | 17 | 1:2,296,428 | 70,019 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Burundi | 4 | 1:2,451,213 | 1,279 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Buyoya (142) may also be a first name.
Buyoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buyoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Buyoya occurs more in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Buyoya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,202,518th most commonly held surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 37,181,357 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 80 percent of Buyoya are found; 53 percent are found in Central Africa and 53 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 775,413th most widely held first name world-wide It is held by 142 people.
This last name is most frequently held in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 103 people, or 1 in 717,277. Other than The DR Congo this last name occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 12 percent are found and England, where 11 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 Buyoya
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