Mboua Surname
Approximately 2,295 people bear this surname
Mboua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2,163 | 1:9,602 | 1,264 |
| France | 49 | 1:1,355,566 | 135,191 |
| Niger | 27 | 1:710,815 | 16,981 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Congo | 10 | 1:498,910 | 11,250 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Mboua (141) may also be a first name.
Mboua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mboua Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mboua (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺒﻮ) is found most in Cameroon. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mboua? popularity and diffusion
The last name Mboua is the 184,776th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 3,175,401 people. The last name Mboua is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Mboua are found; 94 percent are found in Central Africa and 91 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Mboua is also the 778,371st most commonly held first name worldwide, held by 141 people.
The surname Mboua is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 2,163 people, or 1 in 9,602. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 43 percent live, Littoral Region, where 32 percent live and East Region, where 13 percent live. Aside from Cameroon Mboua occurs in 18 countries. It is also common in France, where 2 percent live and Niger, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mboua Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mboua in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮ | ambw | - |
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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 Mboua
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