Bakah Surname
Approximately 2,625 people bear this surname
Bakah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 2,355 | 1:11,474 | 1,518 |
| Djibouti | 100 | 1:9,149 | 584 |
| Nigeria | 56 | 1:3,163,264 | 96,723 |
| Pakistan | 28 | 1:6,380,139 | 37,476 |
| Malaysia | 22 | 1:1,340,647 | 57,034 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 1:8,816,613 | 340,855 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Mauritania | 4 | 1:1,023,716 | 25,172 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Bakah (300) may also be a first name.
Bakah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bakah (Arabic: بقعه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺎﻛﺎﻩ, Hindi: बख्श) is most common in Ghana. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakah? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 165,072nd most widespread surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 2,776,208 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Bakah are found; 93 percent are found in West Africa and 92 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 508,767th most frequently occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 300 people.
The last name Bakah is most numerous in Ghana, where it is held by 2,355 people, or 1 in 11,474. Beside Ghana this last name occurs in 20 countries. It is also common in Djibouti, where 4 percent reside and Nigeria, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bakah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bakah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺎﻛﺎﻩ | bakah | - |
| Bakah in the Hindi language | ||
| बख्श | bakhsa | 50 |
| बकाह | bakaha | 50 |
| Bakah in the Arabic language | ||
| بقعه | bqh | - |
| بقه | bqh | - |
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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 Bakah
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