Bomye Surname
Approximately 32 people bear this surname
Bomye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 31 | 1:669,970 | 49,334 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Bomye (18) may also be a first name.
Bomye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bomye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bomye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻮﻣﻴﺔ) is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Bomye.
How Common Is The Last Name Bomye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,485,539th most common family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bomye live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Bomye is also the 2,608,198th most widespread first name in the world. It is borne by 18 people.
It is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 31 people, or 1 in 669,970. In Cameroon Bomye is most frequent in: Northwest Region, where 97 percent reside and Southwest Region, where 3 percent reside. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bomye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bomye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻮﻣﻴﺔ | bwmyt | - |
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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 Bomye
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