M'Boye Surname
Approximately 169 people bear this surname
M'Boye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 123 | 1:187,571 | 8,219 |
| Mauritania | 45 | 1:90,997 | 5,761 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
M'Boye (67) may also be a first name.
M'Boye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name M'Boye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name M'Boye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻱ) is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name M'Boye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,328,442nd most frequently held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 43,121,573 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of M'Boye live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 70 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,191,548th most frequently used forename globally It is held by 67 people.
The last name M'Boye is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 123 people, or 1 in 187,571. In The Ivory Coast M'Boye is mostly concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 94 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 4 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 1 percent live. Excluding The Ivory Coast it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 27 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
M'Boye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| M'Boye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻱ | ambwy | 50 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﻲ | amby | 22.5 |
| ﺃﻣﺒﻮﻱ | ambwy | 12.5 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻯ | ambwy | 2.5 |
| ﺑﺎﻱ | bay | 2.5 |
| ﺁﻣﺒﻮﻱ | ambwy | 2.5 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻳﻪ | ambwyh | 2.5 |
| ﻣﺒﻮﻱ | mbwy | 2.5 |
| ﺑﻮﻱ | bwy | 2.5 |
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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 M'Boye
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