Mboye Surname
Approximately 1,511 people bear this surname
Mboye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 634 | 1:83,504 | 8,524 |
| DR Congo | 424 | 1:174,244 | 17,772 |
| Cameroon | 194 | 1:107,057 | 12,544 |
| South Africa | 154 | 1:351,803 | 32,234 |
| Senegal | 56 | 1:260,345 | 1,574 |
| Kenya | 19 | 1:2,430,521 | 36,895 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Namibia | 6 | 1:401,567 | 10,578 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Mboye (749) may also be a first name.
Mboye Demographics
Mboye Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mboye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mboye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mboye (Arabic: مبويي, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻱ) is found most in Tanzania. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Mboye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mboye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 260,043rd most widely held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 4,822,995 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mboye live; 44 percent live in East Africa and 43 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 300,342nd most commonly used first name world-wide. It is borne by 749 people.
Mboye is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 634 people, or 1 in 83,504. In Tanzania it is mostly concentrated in: Kilimanjaro Region, where 37 percent reside, Arusha Region, where 19 percent reside and Dodoma Region, where 17 percent reside. Besides Tanzania this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 28 percent reside and Cameroon, where 13 percent reside.
Mboye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Mboye earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 56.65% less than the national average, earning R 103,020 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mboye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mboye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻱ | ambwy | 50 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﻲ | amby | 25 |
| ﺍﻣﺒﻮﻯ | ambwy | 25 |
| Mboye in the Arabic language | ||
| مبويي | mbwyy | - |
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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 Mboye
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