Baga is used as a family name or surname in Cameroon. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Baga
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Cameroon
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Baga

How popular is Baga?

Baga is common in Cameroon.

Baga is ranked 27629 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Bagas plummeted by 6.995885 per cent to 226 since 2000 and slipped by 9062 spots and ranked at 83226. The last name was found in around 1 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 38.94 36.21
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 21.68 24.28
American Indian and Alaska Native 17.26 13.17
Hispanic or Latino 13.27 16.05
Others 6.19 7.41
Black 2.65 2.88
Baga is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Burkina Faso which signifies that it is originated from Burkina Faso. Around 18320 people have been found who wears Baga as their family name. Baga is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
114,007 Czech Republic4
671 Mali4
32,472 Azerbaijan3
32,086 Mexico3
6,989 Uganda3
90,215 Germany3
9,500 Ghana3
24,547 Saudi Arabia3
54,641 Sweden2
332 Chad2
24,766 Scotland2
37,372 Georgia2
20,595 China2
31,767 Greece2
20,172 Hungary1
29,595 Iran1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
62,864 New Zealand1
53,033 Nigeria1
13,606 Senegal1
25,746 Finland1
24,771 Colombia1
91,024 Belgium1
3,275 Nepal1
28,365 Kenya1
3,214 Niger1
17,768 Pakistan1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
38,830 Morocco1
24,176 Qatar1
2,024 Mongolia1
36,678 Singapore1
24,421 Slovakia1
5,589 Sudan1
5,553 Taiwan1
4,435 Togo1
2,935 Madagascar1
16,283 Lithuania1
4,942 Libya1
32,942 Uzbekistan1
37,493 Austria1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
6,205 Mauritania42
32,867 Belarus36
82,145 Canada34
40,883 Zimbabwe27
36,547 Switzerland27
37,982 United Arab Emirates23
120,934 Australia11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
93,642 France98
27,285 Kazakhstan91
47,891 England81
35,456 Spain65
66,582 Argentina60
Countries with hundreds of Baga:
16,293 Indonesia728
11,594 Algeria536
11,929 Tanzania389
29,743 Italy314
20,451 Turkey279
53,417 Russia261
89,481 United States259
42,856 Brazil254
23,808 Ukraine232
17,090 Romania104
15,665 Malaysia101
Countries with thousands of Baga:
365 Burkina Faso6,339
12,247 India3,809
4,557 Philippines2,964
3,271 Cameroon1,090
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Farmer Antonio Baga from Italy aboard the La Bretagne from Havre. He is registered to be 22 years old when he arrived in Fellice on June 26, 1893. Battista Baga, aged 24, Carolina Baga, aged 20, 6 years old Elia Baga, Elisa Baga, Ernesta Baga, aged 21, 17 years old Fran Baga, Giacomo Baga, aged 42, Iole Baga (30), are others that migrated to US.

Comments

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Andrew Delatorre
 The origin of the name is Basque etymology of the name comes from the word meaning the baga beech; and by extension where grow beeches this surname specifies the location of the ancestral home.

Baga Namesakes

  • Abhijeet Bagalkote, Actor
  • Ege Bagatur, Politician
  • Adhitya Bagaskara, Keyboardist
  • Alan Bagayev, Soccer defender
  • Ali Bagautinov, Mixed martial artist
  • Amado Bagatsing, Politician
  • Amadou Bagayoko, Author
  • Andrej Bagar, Film actor
  • Raymond Bagatsing, Actor
  • Giorgi Bagaturov, Chess Player

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